Subject: Re: perhaps time to check our TCP against spec?
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/06/1998 21:27:43
On Mon, 06 Apr 1998 19:05:53 -0700 
 Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

 > Yes, that, and that merely RFC-conformant hosts (or NetBSD hosts
 > without the more aggressive ACK changes) would only be ACKing2*MSS.
 > Which could be a heck of a lot more than twice the actual `MSS'
 > derived from the interface.

NetBSD does not ACK every 2*rxMSS.  It ACKs every two segments received,
regardless of size.

 > Is that in 1.3.1 or not?

If he "just committed" it, obviously it's not.

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