Re: [PATCH] tcp: make urg+gso work for real this time
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2008-12-26 02:38:46
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2008-12-26 02:38:46
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 06:00:51PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
So it all hinges on how the receiver updates his URG pointer. This is what legitimizes a sender advertising a changing URG pointer.
Pretty much.
So it works, but it isn't the nicest thing in the world :-)
It would've been nice and simple had the original implementors strictly followed RFC793 and done the out-of-band notifications instead of coming up with their fanciful notions of out-of-band data :) Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} [off-list ref] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt