From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 11 11:14:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2D3915003; Tue, 11 May 1999 11:14:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.2/8.8.8) id TAA77827; Tue, 11 May 1999 19:13:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 19:13:47 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Peter Wemm Cc: Snob Art Genre , Dennis Glatting , Bill Paul , current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody actually using gigabit ethernet? Message-ID: <19990511191347.C33364@pavilion.net> References: <19990511171145.74BC81F72@spinner.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990511171145.74BC81F72@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Wed, May 12, 1999 at 01:11:43AM +0800 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message