9 Apr
2009
9 Apr
'09
1:27 p.m.
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
Interesting. I never had that behavior exhibited on my old PCMCIA card on Verizon or on my u727 on Sprint. What OS platform were you on lappie-wise?
I run NetBSD but I know that the problem also showed up on Linux -- a friend who worked for an equipment vendor also saw it, and he checked the actual EVDO specs.
We suspect the problem doesn't show up for Windows users because Windows appears to terminate all connections with extreme prejudice when the link goes away, so there won't be any TCP transmissions to induce the failure.
Didn't have the problem manifest itself on MacOSX (10.4, 10.5) either... -r