Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4007A0C1.9090807@rd.francetelecom.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:28:49 +0100 From: Laurent Vaucher Reply-To: openup01@rd.francetelecom.com Organization: France Telecom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Jan 2004 08:28:49.0773 (UTC) FILETIME=[C44DE9D0:01C3DC0A] X-IsSubscribed: yes > Unfortunately, PMTU discovery doesn't work over avian carrier. Sending >out bigger and bigger packets until you find the size that makes the carrier >choke was banned by the humane society.... But it's a good way to make >pate.... > > It reminds me of a Calvin & Hobbes strip where Calvin and his father stand at one end of a bridge with a sign reading "Max. weight: 15 tons". So Calvin asks his father how people knew that the maximum weight allowable on the bridge was 15 tons. And his father replies that they cross the bridge with trucks each time heavier and when the bridge breaks, they record the weight of the last truck that crossed safely and rebuild the bridge identically. By the way, does SFU support RFC 1097 : Telnet-Subliminal-Message option ? http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/doc/standard/rfc/10xx/1097 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/