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Verizon EVDO Issues

Subject: Verizon EVDO Issues
From: rs at seastrom.com (Robert E. Seastrom)
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:27:02 -0400
In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (Steven M. Bellovin's message of "Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:28:35 -0400")
References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>

"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at 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

References:
- Verizon EVDO Issues
  - From: a.harrowell at gmail.com (Alexander Harrowell)
- Verizon EVDO Issues
  - From: sethm at rollernet.us (Seth Mattinen)
- Verizon EVDO Issues
  - From: rs at seastrom.com (Robert E. Seastrom)
- Verizon EVDO Issues
  - From: smb at cs.columbia.edu (Steven M. Bellovin)
- Verizon EVDO Issues
  - From: rs at seastrom.com (Robert E. Seastrom)
- Verizon EVDO Issues
  - From: smb at cs.columbia.edu (Steven M. Bellovin)

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