Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 01:11:43 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.net> Cc: Dennis Glatting <dennis.glatting@software-munitions.com>, Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody actually using gigabit ethernet? Message-ID: <19990511171145.74BC81F72@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 May 1999 12:38:58 -0400." <Pine.BSF.3.96.990511122739.19176B-100000@narcissus.net>
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Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 1999, Dennis Glatting wrote: > > > In reading your message I felt compelled to ask you a question. Are > > you using gb end-to-end? That probably isn't a good idea because in > > TCP the sequence numbers can wrap within timeout periods and the data > > stream become undetectably (from a TCP perspective) corrupt. > > Isn't that adequately covered by the PAWS extension from RFC 1323? Well, maybe it would, but.... [1:09am]~src/etc-111# grep tcp_ext defaults/rc.conf tcp_extensions="NO" # Disallow RFC1323 extensions (or YES). It's off by default. :-( Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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