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Date:      Tue, 11 May 1999 19:13:47 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.net>, 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:  <19990511191347.C33364@pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990511171145.74BC81F72@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Wed, May 12, 1999 at 01:11:43AM %2B0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990511122739.19176B-100000@narcissus.net> <19990511171145.74BC81F72@spinner.netplex.com.au>

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On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 01:11:43AM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 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).

No.. it's _on_ by default.  (YES to disallow.)

Joe
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