From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 29 13:28:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA05462 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:28:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05388 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:28:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA04561; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 14:25:12 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601292125.OAA04561@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Why RFC1323 is disabled on freefall and freebsd.cdrom.com ? To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 14:25:11 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, nate@sri.MT.net, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601292121.OAA09292@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jan 29, 96 02:21:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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. Yeah. It has to do with how much of the packet header for the last packet is diffed for it to constitue an undeltable change. The specific posting I was thinking of was a compressed packet count comparison between Linux and FreeBSD that someone posted about a week ago (I can probably dig it up if you need it). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.