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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:46:52 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        andre@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TTCP/RFC1644 problem
Message-ID:  <E1AqWLs-0000vQ-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4028B68F.41DB11FD@freebsd.org>
References:  <E1AqUzs-000G9q-TH@cs.huji.ac.il>

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Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>Linux never will.  They consider TTCP broken by design. [...]
>The problem is that TTCP will never make it mainstream or even
>little side stream.  FreeBSD is the only BSD implementing it.

The reason for its lack of popularity is that it has significant
security problems.

http://tcp-impl.grc.nasa.gov/tcp-impl/list/archive/1292.html

Tony.
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