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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!olivea!wetware!wsrcc.com!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: tcp_extensions ? Date: 21 Nov 1995 04:10:37 -0800 Organization: People's Front Against WWW Lines: 22 Sender: nawaz921@waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <imhgzycgn6.fsf@waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <48f1kk$iod@aztec.co.za> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: tony@hornet.netac.co.za's message of 16 Nov 1995 09:52:20 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.9 In article <48f1kk$iod@aztec.co.za> tony@hornet.netac.co.za (Tony Harverson) writes: $ I was wondering if anyone has any docs or knows of where they are, relating to $ the tcp_extensions set in sysconfig. I just disabled them on my box to enable $ me to connect to another machine with them disabled altho I have no problems $ myself normally - only when connecting to this particular machine ( 2.0.5->2.0.5) read rfc1644 for transactional/tcp, rfc1323 for time-stamping. there's also a man page for ttcp(4) in -current (probably in 2.1 also). $ Do these extensions cause problems over ethernetted connections or only ppp/slip $ ones ? what is the 'loosing hardware' mentioned ? i have problems connecting from my home machine to my work one (both running -current). it's either ij-ppp or the terminal server that's behind the problem...haven't figured out which one yet. i have had no problems with connecting between two machines over ethernet when both are running tcp extensions.