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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Why does every packet have so many options? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jun 95 08:56:12 +0200."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 02:55:37 -0700
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>As Charles Henrich wrote:
>> 
>> Why is it that All FreeBSD packets have a zillion options set in them, while
>> most other vendors packets are "clean" ?

   Because most other vendors don't have support for TCP extensions. If you
wish to disable the options, you can do so by changing the "tcp_extensions"
option in sysconfig from "YES" to "NO".

-DG