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From: rick@SEISMO.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: subnetting supported by Sequents?
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Date: 26 May 88 15:04:47 GMT
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If you bitch and scream loudly enough, Sequent will send you a
special version of TCP. Its not as good as the latest
Jacobsen/Karels TCP, but it is a tremendous improvement over
what they were shipping. I think it will be included as part
of the next real release.

They do still ship the broken 4.2bsd user programs and don't seem
to care. The good news is that the 4.3bsd source programs
port rather easily. We are running the latest bind and sendmail
on our Sequent and it performs quite well.

It is important to keep yelling at Sequent until they fix it. They
think that their customers don't care about things like 
high performance networking. If enough sites keep complaining, they
might finally fix things.

--rick