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Resequence network protocols section.
Some ipfw(8) and ip6fw(8) items were mistakenly put here; move them to the userland area. No content or markup changes.
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@@ -548,16 +548,34 @@
when accepting and reading new connections on listening sockets,
has been added. &merged;</para>
- <para>The &man.ng.mppc.4; and &man.ng.bridge.4; node types have
- been added to the &man.netgraph.4; subsystem. The &man.ng.ether.4; node
- is now dynamically loadable. Miscellaneous bug fixes and
- enhancements have also been made. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The <literal>proxy</literal> modifier to &man.arp.8;'s
+ <option>-d</option> option has been renamed to
+ <literal>pub</literal>, for consistency with the
+ <option>-s</option> option. The <literal>only</literal> keyword
+ has been added to the <option>-s</option> and
+ <option>-S</option> flags, to be used in creating
+ <quote>proxy-only</quote> published entries.</para>
- <para>&man.netgraph.4; has received some updates and bugfixes.</para>
+ <para>&man.bridge.4; and &man.dummynet.4; have received some
+ enhancements and bug fixes.</para>
- <para>A new netgraph node type &man.ng.one2many.4; for multiplexing
- and demultiplexing packets over multiple links has been added.
- &merged;</para>
+ <para>ICMP ECHO and TSTAMP replies are now rate limited. TCP RSTs
+ generated due to packets sent to open and unopen ports are now
+ limited by separate counters. Each rate limiting queue now has
+ its own description.</para>
+
+ <para>ICMP <literal>UNREACH_FILTER_PROHIB</literal> messages can
+ now RST TCP connections in the <literal>SYN_SENT</literal> state
+ if the correct sequence numbers are sent back, as controlled by the
+ <varname>net.inet.tcp.icmp_may_rst</varname>
+ sysctl.</para>
+
+ <para>IP multicast now works on VLAN devices. Several other
+ bugs in the VLAN code have also been fixed.</para>
+ <para>&man.ipfw.4; now filters correctly in the presence of ECN bits in TCP
+ segments. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>&man.netgraph.4; has received some updates and bugfixes.</para>
<para>The &man.ng.gif.4; and &man.ng.gif.demux.4; netgraph
nodes, for operating on &man.gif.4; devices, have been
@@ -567,19 +585,34 @@
packets into the main IP input processing code, has been
added.</para>
- <para arch="alpha">SLIP has been removed from the
- <filename>mfsroot</filename> floppy image.</para>
+ <para>The &man.ng.mppc.4; and &man.ng.bridge.4; node types have
+ been added to the &man.netgraph.4; subsystem. The &man.ng.ether.4; node
+ is now dynamically loadable. Miscellaneous bug fixes and
+ enhancements have also been made. &merged;</para>
- <para>ICMP ECHO and TSTAMP replies are now rate limited. TCP RSTs
- generated due to packets sent to open and unopen ports are now
- limited by separate counters. Each rate limiting queue now has
- its own description.</para>
+ <para>A new netgraph node type &man.ng.one2many.4; for multiplexing
+ and demultiplexing packets over multiple links has been added.
+ &merged;</para>
- <para>ICMP <literal>UNREACH_FILTER_PROHIB</literal> messages can
- now RST TCP connections in the <literal>SYN_SENT</literal> state
- if the correct sequence numbers are sent back, as controlled by the
- <varname>net.inet.tcp.icmp_may_rst</varname>
- sysctl.</para>
+ <para>A new sysctl <varname>net.inet.ip.check_interface</varname>,
+ which is on by default, causes IP to verify that an incoming
+ packet arrives on an interface that has an address matching the
+ packet's destination address. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>A new sysctl
+ <varname>net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface</varname> has
+ been added to control the suppression of logging when ARP replies
+ arrive on the wrong interface. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>A new <literal>options RANDOM_IP_ID</literal> kernel
+ option causes the ID field of IP packets to be randomized. This
+ closes a minor information leak which allows a remote observer
+ to determine the rate at which the machine is generating
+ packets, since the default behavior is to increment a counter
+ for each packet sent. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para arch="alpha">SLIP has been removed from the
+ <filename>mfsroot</filename> floppy image.</para>
<para>TCP has received some bug fixes for its delayed ACK
behavior. &merged;</para>
@@ -624,52 +657,6 @@
<varname>net.inet.tcp.strict_rfc1948</varname> and
<varname>net.inet.tcp.isn_reseed_interval</varname> sysctl
variables. &merged;</para>
-
- <para>A new sysctl <varname>net.inet.ip.check_interface</varname>,
- which is on by default, causes IP to verify that an incoming
- packet arrives on an interface that has an address matching the
- packet's destination address. &merged;</para>
-
- <para>A new sysctl
- <varname>net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface</varname> has
- been added to control the suppression of logging when ARP replies
- arrive on the wrong interface. &merged;</para>
-
- <para>The <literal>proxy</literal> modifier to &man.arp.8;'s
- <option>-d</option> option has been renamed to
- <literal>pub</literal>, for consistency with the
- <option>-s</option> option. The <literal>only</literal> keyword
- has been added to the <option>-s</option> and
- <option>-S</option> flags, to be used in creating
- <quote>proxy-only</quote> published entries.</para>
-
- <para>&man.ipfw.4; now filters correctly in the presence of ECN bits in TCP
- segments. &merged;</para>
-
- <para>&man.ipfw.8; will now avoid the display of dynamic
- firewall rules unless the <option>-d</option> flag is passed to
- it. The <option>-e</option> lists expired dynamic rules.</para>
-
- <para>&man.bridge.4; and &man.dummynet.4; have received some
- enhancements and bug fixes.</para>
-
- <para>&man.ipfw.8; has a new feature (<literal>me</literal>) that
- allows for packet matching on interfaces with dynamically-changing
- IP addresses. &merged;</para>
-
- <para>&man.ip6fw.8; now has the ability to use a preprocessor
- and use the <option>-q</option> (quiet) flag when reading from a
- file. &merged;</para>
-
- <para>A new <literal>options RANDOM_IP_ID</literal> kernel
- option causes the ID field of IP packets to be randomized. This
- closes a minor information leak which allows a remote observer
- to determine the rate at which the machine is generating
- packets, since the default behavior is to increment a counter
- for each packet sent. &merged;</para>
-
- <para>IP multicast now works on VLAN devices. Several other
- bugs in the VLAN code have also been fixed.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -1555,6 +1542,18 @@
<para>&man.ipfstat.8; now supports the <option>-t</option> option
to turn on a &man.top.1;-like display. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.ipfw.8; will now avoid the display of dynamic
+ firewall rules unless the <option>-d</option> flag is passed to
+ it. The <option>-e</option> lists expired dynamic rules.</para>
+
+ <para>&man.ipfw.8; has a new feature (<literal>me</literal>) that
+ allows for packet matching on interfaces with dynamically-changing
+ IP addresses. &merged;</para>
+
+ <para>&man.ip6fw.8; now has the ability to use a preprocessor
+ and use the <option>-q</option> (quiet) flag when reading from a
+ file. &merged;</para>
+
<para>&man.kenv.1;, a command to dump the kernel environment, has
been added. &merged;</para>
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