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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:27:19 -0800
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Justin Robertson <justin@sk1llz.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPFW SACK options
Message-ID:  <CDAD9871-3C36-4225-AABC-749BC703058D@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <000301c760fa$df57eb40$9e07c1c0$@net>
References:  <000301c760fa$df57eb40$9e07c1c0$@net>

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On Mar 7, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Justin Robertson wrote:
[ ... ]
>   Due to the nature of the current performance disparity between  
> 6.x (I
> assume this is due to the work on making processes thread  
> friendly?) and
> 4.11 (still kicking arse) I'm sticking with the 4.11 branch - and  
> here comes
> my question. If someone is interested, could you work up an option  
> to allow
> removal of the sackOK (sack permitted negotiation) on SYN packets,  
> and then
> pass the SYN packet on with the tcpoption for sack stripped?

Perhaps trying:

   sysctl net.inet.tcp.sack.enable=0

...will do what you are looking for?

-- 
-Chuck




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