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From: seth@ctr.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Inetd Discard on SunOS4
Summary: netout inetd sunos discard
Message-ID: <1990Feb2.011245.17775@ctr.columbia.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 90 01:12:45 GMT
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
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I just picked up the netout package from jade.berkeley.edu and found out
that it did not work with Suns.  (The netout package sends lots of 10K
packets over the ethernet to a remote host which discards them using the
discard built into inetd.c)  The reason was simply that the line:

discard stream	tcp	nowait	root	internal

was not in /etc/inetd.conf (but the udp line was in there, the support was
in the inetd.c, and when you added the line, everything worked).

Now I certainly wouldn't suggest that Sun would ever do anything like this
for no good reason (:-) so I was wondering if anyone knew why Sun might have
done this.

                                        -Seth Robertson
                                         seth@ctr.columbia.edu

P.S.  Good job Thomas Ferrin