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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-24 00:58:36 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-24 00:58:36 +0000
commit0fe76feca56ad4567f5fedf96ce2d03f8abc0be7 (patch)
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New release note: wi(4) hostap.
Modified release note: Edited RFC 1948 note to reflect post-syncache reality. Submitted by: Thomas Skibo <skibo@pacbell.net> (for hostap), silby (for RFC 1948)
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml12
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml12
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index f35d4a4..d3c4a5b 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -733,6 +733,12 @@
Prism 2.5-based NICs. 104/128-bit WEP now works on Prism
cards. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.wi.4; driver now supports using a &os; host as
+ a wireless access point. This functionality can be enabled
+ using the <literal>mediaopt hostap</literal> option of
+ &man.ifconfig.8;. This feature requires a wireless
+ adapter based on the Prism II chipset.</para>
+
<para>The &man.xl.4; driver now supports the 3Com 3C556 and
3C556B MiniPCI adapters used on some laptops. &merged;</para>
@@ -932,10 +938,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
</para>
<para>TCP now supports RFC 1948 (Defending Against Sequence
- Number Attacks). This functionality is controlled by the
- <varname>net.inet.tcp.strict_rfc1948</varname> and
+ Number Attacks). The
<varname>net.inet.tcp.isn_reseed_interval</varname> sysctl
- variables. &merged;</para>
+ variable controls the reseeding of the secret data used in
+ the RFC 1948 initial sequence number calculations. &merged;</para>
<para>The TCP implementation in &os; now implements a cache of
outstanding, received SYN segments. Incoming SYN segments now
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index f35d4a4..d3c4a5b 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -733,6 +733,12 @@
Prism 2.5-based NICs. 104/128-bit WEP now works on Prism
cards. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.wi.4; driver now supports using a &os; host as
+ a wireless access point. This functionality can be enabled
+ using the <literal>mediaopt hostap</literal> option of
+ &man.ifconfig.8;. This feature requires a wireless
+ adapter based on the Prism II chipset.</para>
+
<para>The &man.xl.4; driver now supports the 3Com 3C556 and
3C556B MiniPCI adapters used on some laptops. &merged;</para>
@@ -932,10 +938,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
</para>
<para>TCP now supports RFC 1948 (Defending Against Sequence
- Number Attacks). This functionality is controlled by the
- <varname>net.inet.tcp.strict_rfc1948</varname> and
+ Number Attacks). The
<varname>net.inet.tcp.isn_reseed_interval</varname> sysctl
- variables. &merged;</para>
+ variable controls the reseeding of the secret data used in
+ the RFC 1948 initial sequence number calculations. &merged;</para>
<para>The TCP implementation in &os; now implements a cache of
outstanding, received SYN segments. Incoming SYN segments now
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