From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 11 10:11:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A8C14DA6; Tue, 11 May 1999 10:11:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74BC81F72; Wed, 12 May 1999 01:11:43 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Snob Art Genre Cc: Dennis Glatting , Bill Paul , current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody actually using gigabit ethernet? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 May 1999 12:38:58 -0400." Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 01:11:43 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990511171145.74BC81F72@spinner.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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