From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 8 4:31:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.dignus.com (sdsl-66-80-58-206.dsl.lax.megapath.net [66.80.58.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7502937B403 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 04:31:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by gateway.dignus.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f68BUsr34638; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 07:30:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f68BVKB29570; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 07:31:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rivers) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 07:31:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <200107081131.f68BVKB29570@lakes.dignus.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, rivers@dignus.com, silby@silby.com Subject: Re: Headsup: Tcp ISN generation changes from 4.2 to 4.3 In-Reply-To: <200107081126.f68BQFV29529@lakes.dignus.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Consequently, I have just committed patches to -current and -stable which > > allow you to select the tcp initial sequence number generation scheme used > > by your system. If you don't wish to cvsup just for this patch, you may > > instead obtain it from http://www.silby.com/patches/multiple_isn_schemes.patch > > and manually apply the patch yourself. > > I've been having problems connecting to some older mainframe machines > after the upgrade to 4.3-RELEASE, and was hoping this might be the > culprit. (Actually, the problems are that the older mainframe TCP/IP > seems to go south now with any outbound FTP transfer (FreeBSD->mainframe) > where they didn't before.) > > However, your patches do not apply cleanly to a 4.3-RELEASE > system... are these meant for 4.3-STABLE only? > > - Thanks! - > - Dave Rivers - > Ah - just looking at some of the rejections... it seems 4.3-RELEASE has TCP_COMPAT_42 #ifdef's in these areas... while, perhaps, at 4.x-STABLE this has been removed? - Dave Rivers - -- rivers@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message