[Fwd: Author of Ping passes away (fwd)]

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From: Joachim Feise (jfeise@ics.uci.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 23 2000 - 22:12:42 PST


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-Joe

"Scott M. Stone" wrote:
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> Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@taos.com>
> UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
> Taos - The SysAdmin Company
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> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:30:12 +1600
> From: krs153@pacbell.net
> To: network@vtc.taos.com
> Subject: Re: Author of Ping passes away
>
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 mark@bitshift.org wrote:
>
> > Over the past few days, I've been hearing reports (some of which I
> > trust) that Mike Muuss, the person who wrote ping, was killed in a car
> > accident Monday night.
> >
> > He also contributed the concept of a "default route" to the BSD
> > kernel, and was responsible for tying the MSS to the MTU in the TCP
> > stack, and has moderated the TCP-IP digest, the Unix-Wizards digest,
> > and the INFO-UNIX digest, and worked to bring the BSD TCP stack to
> > maturity.
> >
> > His page at the Army Research Labs is http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/


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