From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 23 19:24: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.33.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DA0158AF for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:23:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from lestat (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA15551; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199908240221.TAA15551@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> To: walton@nordicrecords.com Cc: geoffr@is.co.za, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting up -STABLE for hack contest Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:21:16 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 17:44:47 -0700 "Dave Walton" wrote: > Hm, just did that. While reading up on nmap, I saw this: > > "TCP Initial Window -- This simply involves checking the window > size on returned packets. [...] In their "completely rewritten" > TCP stack for NT5, Microsoft uses 0x402E. Interestingly, that is > exactly the number used by OpenBSD and FreeBSD." > > Gee, I wonder how that happened... It's not "interesting" at all. Lots of systems default to a 16k receive window. -- Jason R. Thorpe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message