[rescue] weird problem

Joshua D Boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Dec 18 15:29:04 CST 2001


On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:27:02PM -0500, James Sharp wrote:
> >
> > I thought the one referenced within even funnier
> >
> > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt?number=1149
> >
> > IP Datagrams on Avian carriers.
> 
> The scary part about 1149 is that some REALLY bored people actually
> implemented it and tested it with 5 ping packets.  Supposedly, they only
> suffered 1 dropped packet.  Latency was somewhere along the lines of 4
> minutes/packet though.

Only Pings?  They should have used a larger packet size and gone for a short
SSH session.  

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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