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From: gibbs@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu
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Subject: rfc1323 and rfc1644 support can confuse terminal servers w/SLIP
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>Number:         292
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       rfc1323 and rfc1644 support can confuse terminal servers w/SLIP
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list)
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Apr  1 15:30:01 1995
>Closed-Date:    Fri Jun 16 22:58:46 PDT 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     gibbs
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	SLIP connection to an annex (and possibly other) terminal server.
	VJ header compression might be a factor.

>Description:

	rfc1323 and rfc1644 negotiation can make TCP communication to other
	FreeBSD machines on the other side of a SLIP link impossible.  This
	is not a FreeBSD bug, but a bug in many terminal servers.

	During install, I would highly recommend that these two commands be
	run before any type of network installation:

	sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0
	sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1644=0

	It would not look good to not be able to ftp the distribution from
	one of our own machines.  There should also be a big warning about
	this in the install notes and possibly even during installation.

>How-To-Repeat:

	If you want to see it in action, just let me know, and I'll turn
	rfc1323 and rfc1644 negotiation back on for narnia.hip.berkeley.edu.

>Fix:
	
	Make the install program disable these features during network 
	installations.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: davidg 
State-Changed-When: Fri Jun 16 22:58:46 PDT 1995 
State-Changed-Why:  
As mentioned in the PR, this isn't a bug in FreeBSD and the decision on 
this is that TCP options negotiation should remain enabled. 
>Unformatted:



