"Steven M. Bellovin" <s...@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
