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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:00:13 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
Cc:        Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>, Robert Chalmers <robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>, FreeBSD ISP <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC 1323 default settings (was Re: progress report on connection problems) 
Message-ID:  <199701290000.QAA17825@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:40:21 %2B1100." <Pine.BSF.3.91.970129092110.13981t-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> 

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>Since RFC 1323 deals with long fat pipes, which very few of us have, it
>would make sense to turn the extensions off in the shipped /etc/sysconfig. 

   Actually, the main reason it is on is for the other half of RFC 1323 which
specifies the "time stamp" extensions for better round-trip time estimates.
Unfortunately, I agree with you, however, that RFC 1323 extensions should be
disabled by default. The RFC 1644 extensions (T/TCP), however, should remain
enabled by default. This will only break "finger", and is useful for keeping
vendors TCP stacks compliant.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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