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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:54:56 +1100
From:      "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: options TCP_DROP_SYNFIN
Message-ID:  <20011217185456.A34365@raven.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <20011217073102.GA94480@noname>; from paulius@kaktusas.org on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:31:03AM %2B0200
References:  <20011217073102.GA94480@noname>

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On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:31:03AM +0200, Paulius Bulotas wrote:

> Anyone can explain, why enabling this option is wrong on web server?

T/TCP (RFC 1644) speeds up transactions by not using the standard three-
way handshake. I gather that it's more efficient if you have lots of
quick connects and disconnects as you do with HTTP when not using the
keepalive features.


Tim

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