From 0860aff3d6404e52ea3e41f5151ab188dc01df25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:10:20 +0000 Subject: New release notes: Changed some TCP tunable defaults, MSS sanity checks and overload protection, OpenSSH 3.7.1p2. Use digi(4) entity. Bump copyright date. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index c76e77d..393b5b2 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ 2001 2002 2003 + 2004 The FreeBSD Documentation Project @@ -124,7 +125,7 @@ Kernel Changes The dgb (DigiBoard intelligent serial card) driver has been - removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the digi driver, + removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver, which supports all the hardware of the dgb driver. The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to @@ -172,7 +173,20 @@ Network Protocols - + The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC + 3042 (Limited Retransmit), RFC 3390 (increased initial + congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product + limiting. More information can be found in &man.tcp.4;. + + &os;'s TCP implementation now includes support for a + minimum MSS (settable via the + net.inet.tcp.minmss sysctl variable) and a + rate limit on connections that send many small TCP segments + within a short period of time (via the + net.inet.tcp.minmssoverload sysctl + variable). Connections exceeding this limit may be reset and + dropped. This feature provides protection against a class of + resource exhaustion attacks. @@ -219,6 +233,9 @@ The ACPI-CA code has been updated from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot. + OpenSSH has been updated from + 3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2. + 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 c76e77d..393b5b2 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ 2001 2002 2003 + 2004 The FreeBSD Documentation Project @@ -124,7 +125,7 @@ Kernel Changes The dgb (DigiBoard intelligent serial card) driver has been - removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the digi driver, + removed due to breakage. Its replacement is the &man.digi.4; driver, which supports all the hardware of the dgb driver. The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to @@ -172,7 +173,20 @@ Network Protocols - + The following TCP features are now enabled by default: RFC + 3042 (Limited Retransmit), RFC 3390 (increased initial + congestion window sizes), TCP bandwidth-delay product + limiting. More information can be found in &man.tcp.4;. + + &os;'s TCP implementation now includes support for a + minimum MSS (settable via the + net.inet.tcp.minmss sysctl variable) and a + rate limit on connections that send many small TCP segments + within a short period of time (via the + net.inet.tcp.minmssoverload sysctl + variable). Connections exceeding this limit may be reset and + dropped. This feature provides protection against a class of + resource exhaustion attacks. @@ -219,6 +233,9 @@ The ACPI-CA code has been updated from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot. + OpenSSH has been updated from + 3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2. + -- cgit v1.1