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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>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Changing socket buffer timeout to a u_long?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211211637000.69388-100000@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <3DDD79D0.888A1A39@mindspring.com>

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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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