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TCAAC - Episode 7 - Black Hole Router Detection

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Scott and Nick are back for another TCAAC with Nick getting himself utterly confused by the internet and so-called black hole routers and how to fix the problem.

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Posted by Steve - Fri 05 Sep 2008 15:36
Nick: Black hole is a router which just drops packets.
Scott: Why do they do that?
Nick: ‘cos they’re arses
:lol:

On the subject of Vista/XP's network stack. Pre-Vista Windows has a network stack based off of Unix. That's why there's an “etc” folder in C:\windows\system32\drivers\.

Vista uses a new stack Microsoft wrote. It's an excellent stack, as long as you don't want to, oh, say, send data with it.