Miscellaneous Interoperability Problems

A variety of interoperability problems with different vendors’ TCP implementations have been documented. Some of these problems have been seen in the sample captures shown in this chapter (such as Greywolf failing to use slow start, as shown in Section 7.3.5).

For more information on these problems, refer to RFC 2525, entitled “Known TCP Implementation Problems .

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