Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 02:06:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Julie Elizabeth Schlembach <schlem@owlnet.rice.edu>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using timestamp option of ip header (IPOPT_TS) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004110201430.45949-100000@overlord.e-gerbil.net> In-Reply-To: <200006201504.LAA34550@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:23:10 -0500 (CDT), Julie Elizabeth Schlembach <schlem@owlnet.rice.edu> said: > > > a) Activate the timestamp option of the ip header (IPOPT_TS) > > sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1 > > (which should be the default state, but some ancient buggy PPP servers > break when they see one and in any case it defeats VJ header > compression). This enables the TCP option for timestamping, not the IP option. There is a significant difference. :P You really don't want to enable the IP option timestamping, or any IP options for that matter. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/humble PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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