TCP window scaling and broken routers [LWN.net]

TCP window scaling and broken routers

Posted Jul 8, 2004 4:24 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (subscriber, #755)
Parent article: TCP window scaling and broken routers

> It has been a few years, now, that Linux has a strong enough presence in the networking
world that it can get away with taking this sort of position.

I wonder if the same thing is true of the hackers who maintain the large clusters of said
machines: can we 'down tools and tell em go to Hell' if they persist in misnaming criminals as
hackers? :-)

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TCP window scaling and broken routers

Posted Jul 12, 2004 20:42 UTC (Mon) by ron.flory@adtran.com (guest, #22995) [Link]

careful: hacker != cracker

hacker (hobbyist) is not necessarily bad.
cracker is always bad.

Please see: http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/h/hacker.html