From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 13 12:08:04 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA16586 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 12:08:04 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA16580 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 12:07:59 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA19308; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 15:07:10 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 15:07:10 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9501132007.AA19308@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Andras Olah Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Patching a running kernel In-Reply-To: <17921.790013211@utis156.cs.utwente.nl> References: <17921.790013211@utis156.cs.utwente.nl> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > How can I change a variable in a running kernel if the variable has > no sysctl interface? In my case, it is tcp_do_rfc1323. Is there a > simple way of doing this? Create a sysctl interface for it. It's trivial to do. -GAWollman PS: How's T/TCP coming? -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant