RE: [PATCH] Linux default IP ttl

[George Bonser]

> However, sometimes doing the right thing will cause you to loose
> the war.  I recall that early Solaris systems had a problem,
> the details of which I forget, where web browsers of a certain
> very large company would fail.  Apparently the Solaris tcp-ip stack
> was strictly adhering to the RFC's, it was the other large company's
> stack that didn't conform.  If memory serves, there was a raging
> discussion at the time about whether this non-conformance was
> intentional in an effort to target Solaris as an inferior web
> server platform.  Solaris bowed to the inevitable.

I *THINK* there was some Path MTU Discovery thing that did not always work
properly with some BSD 4.2 derived stacks. It has been a long time.