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    TCAAC - Episode 7 - Black Hole Router Detection

    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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    Re: TCAAC - Episode 7 - Black Hole Router Detection

    Nick: Black hole is a router which just drops packets.
    Scott: Why do they do that?
    Nick: 'cos they're arses


    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.
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