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From: nuggets@bluesprings.in-brb.de (Lars Hentschke)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP extensions, what do they do?
Date: 25 Jan 1996 21:53:30 GMT
Organization: Brandenburg Individual Network e.V.
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mitch goldstrom (mitch4@netcom.com) wrote:
:
: Do I need them on?
They are 2 switches, which turns some TCP-Extensions on or off.
I have read these RFC's 'on the fly' (means not carefully) and
found that things are good for performance. So i turned this on.
: What do they do?
Well, if there are
- a lokal Network of Suns and FreeBSD-Boxes at work,
- at your home also a FreeBSD-Box
- and a linux-box (works as ppp-router, kernel 1.2.13) between them,
you will have 50-80% packets lost and no fun.
(till you turned off the tcp-extensions ...)
:)
I dont understand it, but this is the difference for me between ON/OFF.
Lars.
PS: At the moment i turn the linux-router into a freebsd-router.
Some times ago, the router was of freebsd too, but 2.0.5 and
not stable enough and one day - some guys was coming and
installing linux. But it also unstable and strange some days.
Now its time again for FreeBSD. :)