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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
To: flash@hway.ru
CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Eric.Schenk@dna.lth.se
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Subject: Re: RFCs and Urgent pointers
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   Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:50:13 +0400 (MSD)
   From: "Alexander V. Tischenko" <flash@hway.ru>

   Anybody thought of adding the RFC style Urgent pointers to the TCP,
   say, as TCP level socket option ?

We've made this a sysctl() tunable under Linux, I don't think we
considered the benefits of making it a socket option, that may in fact
be a better approach.  Comments?