On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Richard Wendland wrote: > Well, with HZ=10000 RFC1323 TCP connections will stop after 59.7 hours, > with HZ=100000 after 6 hours. For those with long running TCP connections > (eg remote backup) that could be a big deal. See 4.2.3 of RFC1323. > > It does seem quite a few people want HZ>1000 so I think the time has > come to isolate the TCP timestamp option clock from the HZ value to > avoid this problem. For now they should set net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 to > avoid breaking RFC1323. > > Note this doesn't affect routed packets, only TCP connections to/from > that host. > > Tom Pavel sent some patches to this list on 14 Jan 2004 that he has been > using to overcome this HZ/RFC1323 problem. > > Richard > -- > Richard Wendland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm aware of those patches, looking at and committing them is on my to-do list. I don't have any immediate plans to work on it, although I will make sure to get it in before 5.3. Mike "Silby" Silbersack _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
