From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 29 13:18:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA04309 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:18:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA04277 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:18:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA09292; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 14:21:09 -0700 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 14:21:09 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601292121.OAA09292@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert Cc: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why RFC1323 is disabled on freefall and freebsd.cdrom.com ? In-Reply-To: <199601292112.OAA04502@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199601291900.MAA08609@rocky.sri.MT.net> <199601292112.OAA04502@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > >I was wondering why RFC1323 timestamps are disabled on both freefall > > > > >and freebsd.cdrom.com > > > > > > > > > >I know one reason not to have them is that they defeat VJ header > > > > >compression, but I don't see the point in having them disabled on > > > > >freebsd.cdrom.com > > > > I don't think they affect VJ compression at all. They work on my boxes, > > but apparently they affect some terminal servers. > > I talked about compression. I meant Predictor-1, not VJ. Header > compression is, I think, largely irrelvant. > > I don't know who hou quoted above, but it's not me. OK, let's bring in your quote then (I assumed it was you since they said almost the same thing. :) You wrote: > I thought it was because it defeated compression for PPP. AFAIK, the timestamps aren't a problem except for those folks who have broken terminal servers, who are more likely to have problems with PPP than others. I have them turned off on my router box now, but before I hooked it up to my ISP's PortMaster I had timestamps working with user-mode ppp between two FreeBSD boxes. Nate