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Previously discussed on HN here with many more interesting comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12021195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12021195
by aeontech 6y ago
Previously discussed on HN here with many more interesting comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12021195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12021195
- nabla9 6y agoReally good answers there. Linux Kernel TCP stack is not just a faithful implementation of the spec. It's also all that hard learned experience about Undocumented Real Internet that is constantly evolving and what must be dealt with. A bug in TCP stack can cause lots of problems for users. Taking responsibility of that is also huge task.