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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>
Cc: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jim Durham <jimd@nepinc.com>,
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Subject: Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4?
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    These changes are performance fixes, not security fixes.  I consider
    them fairly significant performance fixes, but these bugs have been in 
    the TCP stack for literally a whole year without an outcry so I don't
    see much justification for putting them into the security branch.
	
					-Matt


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