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List:       netbsd-tech-net
Subject:    Re: kern/9085: enabling RFC1323 support causes some TCP connectionsto stall
From:       Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios () cs ! uni-bonn ! de>
Date:       2000-02-29 9:25:01
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On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 02:13:55AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Monday, February 28, 2000 at 22:40:20 (-0500), Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: kern/9085: enabling RFC1323 support causes some TCP connectionsto stall
> >
> > Sure.  You can clear the timestamp option on every SYN you see, that will
> > do it.
> 
> That sounds a lot easier than potentially re-writing every TCP header!

Yes, and make the problem worse.

The problem is that some parts of the network are NOT transparent due to 
bugs.

Making the network even less transparent seems to be the wrong hack around
this.

Regards,
	-is

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