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From: schneck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Schneck)
Subject: Re: more about 386BSD SLIP
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References: <Sep.7.14.41.53.1992.602@athos.rutgers.edu> <1992Sep7.193547.6231@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 12:55:42 GMT
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dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz) writes:

>In article <Sep.7.14.41.53.1992.602@athos.rutgers.edu> hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
>>Aside from the well-known silo overflow problem, I think there's
>>another problem in the serial driver.  I just had output hang in SLIP.

There may be a buglet in obcopy (or something like that) in the kernel
code, which will kill TCP ACK packets (among others).  There was a fix
in the PPP code for 386BSD which also repairs SLIP.

\Bernhard.
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