From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) Subject: Re: net-0.2 stuff (and presumebly SLS net stuff) Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1993 13:33:48 GMT
bob@amscons.amscons.com (Bob Amstadt) writes:
....
>PLEASE upgrade your kernel. You don't need to wait for SLS. Install
>the kernel patches. MUCH has been done to the networking code. If you
>follow the linux-activists NET channel, you will see that there is much
>activity in trying to get the networking stable. There are big differences
>between pl3 and pl5. I have seen much better behavior from pl5 than
>any other release.
I'll second that. There is one big problem still left though. Trying to open
a connection to a non-existant TCP port on a Linux (0.99.5) machine just hangs.
Ie, no error ICMP messages seems to be returned, and it never times out either.
Very frustrating...
/Peter