From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 11 9:47:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from narcissus.net (narcissus.net [209.73.230.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E7BE158B7; Tue, 11 May 1999 09:47:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@narcissus.net) Received: by narcissus.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D00FE1A0; Tue, 11 May 1999 12:38:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by narcissus.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C11F813F; Tue, 11 May 1999 12:38:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:38:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: Snob Art Genre To: Dennis Glatting Cc: Bill Paul , current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody actually using gigabit ethernet? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? Ben @narcissus.net -- finally To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message