From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu May 11 12:10:03 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA10235 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 11 May 1995 12:10:03 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA10222 ; Thu, 11 May 1995 12:09:59 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA10840; Thu, 11 May 1995 12:09:46 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199505111909.MAA10840@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: misc/292: rfc1323 and rfc1644 support can confuse terminal servers w/SLIP To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 12:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, gibbs@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9504032019.AA22793@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Apr 3, 95 04:19:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1007 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > < said: > > > Maybe these need to be switched on and off inside netstart using > > sysconfig variables? Suggestions? > > I think it's not unreasonable to do: > > # > # Some broken implementations can't handle the RFC 1323 and RFC 1644 > # TCP options. If TCP connections randomly hang, try enabling this, > # and bug the vendor of the losing equipment. > # > if [ "x$disable_tcp_extensions" == "xYES" ]; then > sysctl -nw net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 > sysctl -nw net.inet.tcp.rfc1644=0 > fi I have now implemented something similiar to this, those who had problems here please test out the new /etc/netstart and /etc/sysconfig files. You will have to set ``tcp_extensions=NO'' in /etc/sysconfig if your site has problem with the extensions. The default is YES. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD