Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:43:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Turning tcp_extensions back on? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008101541410.63235-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20000810141253.A2550@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> [ Background -- NetCraft, the server statistics people, are about to start
> producing reports where they figure out the uptime of the server's they're
> talking to. I was talking to one of their engineers yesterday, and he
> mentioned that FreeBSD doesn't work well with this, because most of the
> deployed systems keep tcp_extensions turned off, and they use the RFC1323
> extensions to do the report. Obviously, if it's still an issue then we
> should keep them turned off (and probably prepare some sort of text that
> NetCraft can send out with the reports which explains why FreeBSD doesn't
> figure very well in the report. Alternatively, if it's not a problem
> any more then we should turn them on. ]
Turning them on now won't help servers with 2 year uptimes unless they
toggle the sysctl manually (not likely), or, uh, upgrade and reboot ;-)
Kris
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