TTCP/RFC1644 problem

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Tue Feb 10 03:46:54 PST 2004


Andre Oppermann <andre at 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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