Study: comparing free and proprietary network stacks

Study: comparing free and proprietary network stacks

as always FITNR ;o)

It really depends on the nature of the "bugs" they've found in Linux's tcp/ip implementation.

Occasionally I've seen the kernel hackers argue about what it the correct way of handling a given situation on linux-kernel. The choices generally comes down to pragmatism (ie what works best in the real world) and interoperability. Going against standards isn't necessarily the issue though some may argue the standard says one thing it often comes down to interpretation.

It wouldn't suprise me if some of the points they see as bugs are deliberate features of a well tested and working (in the real world) tcp/ip stack.

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