Re^7: Socket hang. (Windows or Perl? Solutions?) (Updated)

Maybe IPv6 has corrected some of these archaic leftovers?

That would be a logical assumption, which would make it highly unlikely :). IPv6 changes nothing about TCP. Well OK, it changes how the pseudoheader checksum is calculated (part of TCP header). From an OSI-model point of view, they really had little choice about changing TCP, as this is at a different layer, and each layer is supposed to be independent of the others. I worked on our IPv6 implementation, and the pseudoheader was the only TCP code that we had to touch. They even pretty much left the 1500-byte MTU alone, mostly because of legacy devices.

fnord

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Re^8: Socket hang. (Windows or Perl? Solutions?) (Updated) by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 07, 2011 at 18:39 UTC
That would be a logical assumption, which would make it highly unlikely :). Right! What was I thinking :) Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply]