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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:38:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: Changing socket buffer timeout to a u_long?
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
> FWIW: upping the roll-over rate is not a good reason to increase
> the size of fields, unless you want to increase the TCP sequence
> number filed to 64 bits?  ...it has exactly the same issues at
> high data rates.

That's what the timestamp option does and I think it was a good idea,
given the range of systems TCP needs to work well on.

-Nate


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