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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2001-09-06 22:50:12 +0000
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Document two sysctl variables used by RFC 1948 functionality.
While I'm here, fix two markup inconsistencies. Submitted by: silby
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@@ -207,10 +207,10 @@ as described in RFC 1644.
The default value used for the maximum segment size
.Pq Dq MSS
when no advice to the contrary is received from MSS negotiation.
-.It TCPCTL_SENDSPACE
+.It Dv TCPCTL_SENDSPACE
.Pq tcp.sendspace
Maximum TCP send window.
-.It TCPCTL_RECVSPACE
+.It Dv TCPCTL_RECVSPACE
.Pq tcp.recvspace
Maximum TCP receive window.
.It tcp.log_in_vain
@@ -289,6 +289,20 @@ in the
.It tcp.pcbcount
Number of active process control blocks
(read-only).
+.It tcp.strict_rfc1948
+Enable strict RFC 1948 (Defending Against Sequence Number Attacks)
+compliance.
+Setting this variable to a non-zero value will disable reseeding and
+will disable the use of randomized initial sequence numbers in favor
+of MD5-generated initial sequence numbers.
+.It tcp.isn_reseed_interval
+The interval (in seconds) specifying how often the secret data used in
+RFC 1948 initial sequence number calculations should be reseeded.
+By default, this variable is set to zero, indicating that
+no reseeding will occur.
+Reseeding should not be necessary, and will break
+.Dv TIME_WAIT
+recycling for a few minutes.
.El
.Sh ERRORS
A socket operation may fail with one of the following errors returned:
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