Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:28:26 -0800 From: Justin Walker <justin@mac.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP URG point Message-ID: <6A79A3D3-5460-11D9-99AD-00306544D642@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <41C9E437.5040309@freebsd.org> References: <00CDF9AA240E204FA6E923BD35BC643607C4803C@bcs-mail.internal.cacheflow.com> <41C9E437.5040309@freebsd.org>
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On Dec 22, 2004, at 13:16, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Li, Qing wrote:
>> It appears the TCP urgent pointer is off by 1.
>> In RFC-1122, section 4.2.2.4 on Page 83 describes the
>> urgent pointer error in RFC-793.
>> The 6.0-CURRENT code has the urgent pointer set
>> to (LAST+1).
>> Any comments before I sent a PR ?
>
> No, please do and send me the PR number.
It may be well-known here, but this is a long-standing issue. It's
been around since 4.2 days. Cf. the discussions in Stevens's UNPv12e
(p. 566) and TCP/IP Illustrated, v1 (p 292-296).
It may be impolitic to change this :=}
Regards,
Justin
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