Re: FreeBSD or Linux - enough already!
Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org)
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:35:41 -0800
still belongs to your own camp. A new strain of teardrop was discovered
just last week to which Linux systems are *not* immune, and I'd say that
being able to crash any arbitrary Linux box on the network constitutes a
"serious TCP/IP bug." *BSD has never been vulnerable to this bug at
all, by comparison.
[....]
it the bug du-jour, and we all suffer from those occasionally. In time
the Linux folks will find a more robust fix for this latest teardrop
mutation and life will be good again there. Maybe we'll be the next to
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If he is indeed wrong someone should tell him so. He seems the sort that
would apologise for spreading misinformation.
Cheers
Chris