From owner-freebsd-net Wed Jun 21 12: 1:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from overlord.e-gerbil.net (e-gerbil.net [207.91.110.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C93A37B6CA for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:01:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ras@e-gerbil.net) Received: from localhost (ras@localhost) by overlord.e-gerbil.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA25305; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 02:06:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ras@e-gerbil.net) X-Authentication-Warning: overlord.e-gerbil.net: ras owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 02:06:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard A. Steenbergen" To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Julie Elizabeth Schlembach , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using timestamp option of ip header (IPOPT_TS) In-Reply-To: <200006201504.LAA34550@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < 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 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