Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 
>> Vista rewrote the whole TCP/IP stack AFAIK...
> 
> Yes - I do recall somebody complaining that all the bugfix work put into
> the old stack has now effectively been lost, with the new stack having a
> new and unknown set of bugs.

I recall reports of very beta versions of Vista having security bugs in the
TCP/IP stack that had been fixed in Windows 95. (like sending a fake ping
packet with source address 127.0.0.1 caused a kernel-mode infinite loop,
replying to its own ping, locking up your machine very badly)

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