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zik on July 6, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Let's Code a TCP/IP Stack: TCP Retransmission

That's literally how the original TCP/IP implementations were tested: by running them against each other in "bake-offs":

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1025

I think there's a lot to be said for testing network code against the myriad of real world implementations out there.

saminiir on July 6, 2017 [–]

Very interesting and yes, interoperability is hard.

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2014-11-11-tcp-is-hard...

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