[Gllug] tcp ip

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On Thu, 07 Feb 2002, tet at accucard.com muttered drunkenly:
> To be honest, while all this might seem a bit simplistic, it's because
> TCP/IP is, at the end of the day, not that complex.

... but building a stack that works in the presence of all the
half-baked dysfunctional stacks out there, *and* conforms to the
standards... now *that* is complex.

(It's also bloody laborious building parts of it; the million-and-one
rules for ICMP packet generation, for instance. Ouch.)

> All the information is in the RFCs

... except for the information on which gross brokennesses you should
expect, and how to read the minds of the clapped-out systems at the far
end so as to be capable of talking to them nonetheless.

But that's the joy of writing network protocol code.

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`It is to be proven that Linux Kernel is the most stable than MS Windows
 that it uses less stable.' --- Bryan Parkoff being very comprehensible

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