On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 17:44:47 -0700 
 "Dave Walton" <wal...@nordicrecords.com> wrote:

 > Hm, just did that.  While reading up on nmap, I saw this:
 > 
 >   "TCP Initial Window -- This simply involves checking the window
 >    size on returned packets.  [...]  In their "completely rewritten"
 >    TCP stack for NT5, Microsoft uses 0x402E.  Interestingly, that is
 >    exactly the number used by OpenBSD and FreeBSD."
 > 
 > Gee, I wonder how that happened...

It's not "interesting" at all.  Lots of systems default to a 16k
receive window.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thor...@nas.nasa.gov>



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