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What Happened to TCP Flags URGENT, MSG_OOB, and SIGURG? (2007)
- IgorPartola 9y agoWhat the what? I knew of the URGENT flag but had no idea the client discarded the last byte. What is the rationale behind that?
- Jasper_ 9y agoA misunderstanding of what the "Urgent Pointer" field in the header means. I go into it in more detail here: http://blog.mecheye.net/2017/10/urg/ http://blog.mecheye.net/2017/10/urg/
- Trellmor 9y agoRFC 6093 [1] provides a bit more insight into this and other behavior. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6093 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6093
- virgulino 9y agoWinNuke! Those were the days... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke
- solotronics 9y agoas a network engineer the best way is to have excess bandwidth on your entire path on a dedicated link. there is no other way to guarantee anything across the public Internet, yes you can make best effort assumptions but if you are doing something critical there are no guarantees over public networks.