> I'm sorry, but this has not been my experience at all.  I first noticed
> these problems when connecting to Solaris and Irix boxes.


I am talking about Ethernet for my problems.

> I'd like to point out that in my particular case, turning off VJ header
> compression made everything work, and the performance between NetBSD and
> Solaris/Irix boxes is now comparable.  If you could give more exact info
> on why you think the NetBSD rfc1323 implementation is "sub-optimal", I'd
> like to hear it.  But in all honestly, every problem I've ever heard that
> was caused by rfc1323 IP options was always the fault of some intervening
> system, not the NetBSD system itself.

The problem arises when you have no control over the path between two hosts.
For example a SUP to sup.netbsd.org may go through a shit load of various
routers and ancillary equipment. If some fool has configured VJ header
compression (the default for many PPP connections) on a line between me
and the server, then bang. This is of course assuming it is the VJ + 1323
interaction that is causing some of my problems.

On Ethernet, turn 1323 off seems to make NFS over TCP more responsive.
Just a feel at the moment, but I can check later.

Never the less, on WAN connections I suspect it is a good defensive practice
to turn it off by default, and to a degree on LANs too.

Regards,
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