Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 00:20:01 -0400 From: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu> To: louie@TransSys.COM Cc: flash@hway.ru, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Eric.Schenk@dna.lth.se Subject: Re: RFCs and Urgent pointers Message-ID: <199706190420.AAA07058@jenolan.caipgeneral> In-Reply-To: <199706190331.XAA00910@whizzo.TransSys.COM> (louie@TransSys.COM)
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From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 23:31:09 -0400 > > Anybody thought of adding the RFC style Urgent pointers to the TCP, > > say, as TCP level socket option ? TCP urgent data is how the socket out-of-band-data abstraction is realized. I don't understand what else you might "add" to TCP to do "Urgent Pointers". There ought to already be a option for "inline" out-of-band data, which I think is the default in most modern BSD-based TCPs. The issue is not to add anything, but rather to allow, on a configurable basis, one to choose between the RFC sanctioned interpretation of where the urgent pointer "points" and the traditional one. Read the RFC for details 8-) Later, David "Sparc" Miller davem@caip.rutgers.edu
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