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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:10:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   kern/16360: kernel timestamping of ICMP echo requests and replies
Message-ID:  <200001261810.KAA27901@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/16360; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: dwm@caida.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: kern/16360: kernel timestamping of ICMP echo requests and replies
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:01:20 -0500 (EST)

 <<On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 21:01:08 -0500 (EST), dwm@caida.org said:
 
 > 	Patches to put timestamps in payload of ICMP echo requests and
 > 	replies if a new socket option (IP_PINGTIMESTAMP) is enabled.
 > 	The socket option (IP_PINGTIMESTAMP) causes the first 12 bytes
 > 	of the data portion of an echo packet to be filled with 
 > 	timestamps by the kernel.
 
 I am a bit uncomfortable with the idea of this as a general-release
 option in the protocol stack.
 
 -GAWollman
 
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