TCP options order changed in FreeBSD 7, incompatible with some routers

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Wed Mar 12 07:30:11 PDT 2008


On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, d.s. al coda wrote:

> Hi,
> We recently upgraded one of our webservers to FreeBSD 7, and we started
> receiving complaints from some users not able to connect to that server
> anymore. On top of that, users were saying that the problem only occurred on
> Windows (at least, the ones who had more than on OS to try it out).

This sounds like the issue Jake Rizzo has been describing.  The tcp_var.h 
change I put in a few days ago only seems to help when timestamps are 
enabled.  I'll try to sit down and read through this e-mail tonight.

-Mike


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