Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 20:00:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Sean Chittenden <sean-freebsd-arch@chittenden.org> Cc: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>, <arch@FreeBSD.ORG>, <net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: TCP sequence numbers: RFC1948 patch ready for testing Message-ID: <20010725195901.W36006-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20010725173859.C65546@rand.tgd.net>
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On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > day or two suffice? I'm not concerned about rekeying breaking a few > > connections given that it will only happen occasionally. > > While I agree that rekeying isn't something that should be > removed, I am concerned with your last sentence. Breaking TCP sessions > strikes me as an indicator that there needs to be some way of > configuring this. Is there any chance you could make this a tunable > variable through sysctl such as the number of seconds between rekeying? By "breaking a few connections", I was referring to delaying the establishment of a few connections when TIME_WAIT wraparound occurs, not the termination of active connections. I apologize for the confusion. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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