Re: Verizon EVDO Issues

["Robert E. Seastrom" <rs () seastrom com>]

"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