Subject: Re: Appropriate byte counting, revisited.
To: None <mlelstv@serpens.de>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/13/2006 21:06:42
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:49:33AM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
> > 
> > By look it, you mean go to google and type rfc 3465 ?
> 
> Looking at ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3465.txt,
> but google is fine too :)
> 
> > Besides the fact that the RFC number is in the sysctl MIB  
> > description, try searching for "tcp abc rfc" :)
> 
> But "tcp abc" also revealed the "TCP Atomic BrooadCasting" :-)
> 
> For my taste "abc" doesn't say much and is ambigous. Using
> the rfc number is precise, just like net.inet.tcp.rfc1323
> says what it does.

if you want to know the meaning of a netbsd sysctl knob,
you should look at our documents, rather than rfc or google.

net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 was rather ambigous, and now somewhat obsolete.
you should use net.inet.tcp.{win_scale,timestamps} instead.

YAMAMOTO Takashi