From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Aug 10 12: 4:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5869837B9F2 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:04:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (root@kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA09068 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:35:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA02668 for arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:12:54 GMT (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:12:53 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Turning tcp_extensions back on? Message-ID: <20000810141253.A2550@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi guys, Is there a case for keeping tcp_extensions="NO" in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, or are the vast majority of other systems able to deal with it now? [ Background -- NetCraft, the server statistics people, are about to start producing reports where they figure out the uptime of the server's they're talking to. I was talking to one of their engineers yesterday, and he mentioned that FreeBSD doesn't work well with this, because most of the deployed systems keep tcp_extensions turned off, and they use the RFC1323 extensions to do the report. Obviously, if it's still an issue then we should keep them turned off (and probably prepare some sort of text that NetCraft can send out with the reports which explains why FreeBSD doesn't figure very well in the report. Alternatively, if it's not a problem any more then we should turn them on. ] N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message