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New release notes: Changed some TCP tunable defaults, MSS sanity

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checks and overload protection, OpenSSH 3.7.1p2.

Use digi(4) entity.

Bump copyright date.
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<year>2001</year>
<year>2002</year>
<year>2003</year>
<year>2004</year>
<holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder>
</copyright>
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<title>Kernel Changes</title>
<para arch="i386,pc98">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.</para>
<para arch="i386">The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
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<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
<para></para>
<para>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;.</para>
<para>&os;'s TCP implementation now includes support for a
minimum MSS (settable via the
<varname>net.inet.tcp.minmss</varname> sysctl variable) and a
rate limit on connections that send many small TCP segments
within a short period of time (via the
<varname>net.inet.tcp.minmssoverload</varname> sysctl
variable). Connections exceeding this limit may be reset and
dropped. This feature provides protection against a class of
resource exhaustion attacks.</para>
</sect3>
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<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot.</para>
<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ports">

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<year>2001</year>
<year>2002</year>
<year>2003</year>
<year>2004</year>
<holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder>
</copyright>
@ -124,7 +125,7 @@
<title>Kernel Changes</title>
<para arch="i386,pc98">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.</para>
<para arch="i386">The loran (Loran-C receiver) driver has been removed due to
@ -172,7 +173,20 @@
<sect3 id="net-proto">
<title>Network Protocols</title>
<para></para>
<para>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;.</para>
<para>&os;'s TCP implementation now includes support for a
minimum MSS (settable via the
<varname>net.inet.tcp.minmss</varname> sysctl variable) and a
rate limit on connections that send many small TCP segments
within a short period of time (via the
<varname>net.inet.tcp.minmssoverload</varname> sysctl
variable). Connections exceeding this limit may be reset and
dropped. This feature provides protection against a class of
resource exhaustion attacks.</para>
</sect3>
@ -219,6 +233,9 @@
<para>The <application>ACPI-CA</application> code has been updated
from the 20030619 snapshot to the 20031203 snapshot.</para>
<para><application>OpenSSH</application> has been updated from
3.6.1p1 to 3.7.1p2.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ports">