TCP_KEEPCNT, that allow to control initial timeout, idle time, idle
re-send interval and idle send count on a per-socket basis.
Reviewed by: andre, bz, lstewart
mod_cc.4 and mod_cc.9 respectively to avoid any possible confusion with the cc.1
gcc man page. Update references to these man pages where required.
Requested by: Grenville Armitage
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 3 days
FreeBSD" FreeBSD Foundation funded project.
- Add new man pages for the modular congestion control, Khelp and Hhook
frameworks (cc.4, cc.9, khelp.9 and hhook.9).
- Add new man pages for each available congestion control algorithm (cc_chd.4,
cc_cubic.4, cc_hd.4, cc_htcp.4, cc_newreno.4 and cc_vegas.4).
- Add a new man page for the Enhanced Round Trip Time (ERTT) Khelp module
(h_ertt.4).
- Update the TCP (tcp.4) man page to mention the TCP_CONGESTION socket option,
cross reference to cc.4 and remove references to the retired
"net.inet.tcp.newreno" sysctl MIB variable.
In collaboration with: David Hayes <dahayes at swin edu au> and
Grenville Armitage <garmitage at swin edu au>
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 months
A complete rationale and discussion is given in this message
and the resulting discussion:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4177C8AD.6060706
Note that this commit removes only the functional part of T/TCP
from the tcp_* related functions in the kernel. Other features
introduced with RFC1644 are left intact (socket layer changes,
sendmsg(2) on connection oriented protocols) and are meant to
be reused by a simpler and less intrusive reimplemention of the
previous T/TCP functionality.
Discussed on: -arch
This is the first of two commits; bringing in the kernel support first.
This can be enabled by compiling a kernel with options TCP_SIGNATURE
and FAST_IPSEC.
For the uninitiated, this is a TCP option which provides for a means of
authenticating TCP sessions which came into being before IPSEC. It is
still relevant today, however, as it is used by many commercial router
vendors, particularly with BGP, and as such has become a requirement for
interconnect at many major Internet points of presence.
Several parts of the TCP and IP headers, including the segment payload,
are digested with MD5, including a shared secret. The PF_KEY interface
is used to manage the secrets using security associations in the SADB.
There is a limitation here in that as there is no way to map a TCP flow
per-port back to an SPI without polluting tcpcb or using the SPD; the
code to do the latter is unstable at this time. Therefore this code only
supports per-host keying granularity.
Whilst FAST_IPSEC is mutually exclusive with KAME IPSEC (and thus IPv6),
TCP_SIGNATURE applies only to IPv4. For the vast majority of prospective
users of this feature, this will not pose any problem.
This implementation is output-only; that is, the option is honoured when
responding to a host initiating a TCP session, but no effort is made
[yet] to authenticate inbound traffic. This is, however, sufficient to
interwork with Cisco equipment.
Tested with a Cisco 2501 running IOS 12.0(27), and Quagga 0.96.4 with
local patches. Patches for tcpdump to validate TCP-MD5 sessions are also
available from me upon request.
Sponsored by: sentex.net
