(FWD) Re: Win XP, Tor, and WSAENOBUFS

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

[Whoops, I locked down or-dev more than I should have. Forwarding a few
messages from this thread. Brian, do you have any sense of how hard this
registry hack would be? The cynic in me says that Microsoft would lose
a lot of money if people learned how to make their non-server Windowses
stable, so they would not make it easy. -RD]

----- Forwarded message from Brian Szymanski <ski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -----

Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 22:10:59 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Win XP, Tor, and WSAENOBUFS
From: Brian Szymanski <ski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: or-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

By the way folks, I run tor on my freebsd box, not my XP box, but I have
the same problem on XP just from from running a bittorrent client that is
saving to a (samba) network drive. I doubt I'm the only one, but I also
don't think Microsoft cares much about folks using bittorrent and/or tor.

So, since the problem isn't tor-specific, I would argue (FWIW) that the
best fix would be a registry hack that tells XP Home/Pro to be smarter
about network traffic like the server editions.

Cheers,
Brian Szymanski
ski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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