From: hedrick@dumas.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Subject: new copy of KA9Q TCP/IP Date: 16 Feb 1992 08:28:25 GMT
I've just put up new copies of ka9qbin.tar.Z and ka9qsrc.tar.Z in
athos:/pub/linux. The primary difference compared with last week's
copy is that I've done a lot more testing and bug fixing. I've also
revised the READ.ME in ka9qbin.tar.Z, to give a bit more advice about
configuration, and added (primitive) domain name server support.
Here are the primary bug fixes:
cd and pwd now work
"tcp mss" used to affect only outgoing but not incoming connections
there was a bug in header compression that would cause connections
to hang when sending files with a small mss
there was a bug in the IP code that cause cause bytes to be missing
in files retrieved via ftp.
This is all the work I plan to do on KA9Q for the moment. The major
problem now is really in the kernel: the tendency to lose characters
coming in one serial lines.
By the way, I've been doing a lot of file manipulations today, and
have had no hangs or file system problems. I begin to think Linus is
right that the apparently file system problems are really memory
management problems. I made them go away by allocating a swap
partition, which I hadn't been using before.