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Re: [Fwd: Re: [Ticket#2008110410001492] www.shiningsilence.com reported operating system]
:Here's a question: is there a clear way to tell the difference between a
:FreeBSD system and a DragonFly system based on the TCP packets? (see
:forwarded mail below for why I'm asking.)
:
:---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
:Subject: Re: [Ticket#2008110410001492] www.shiningsilence.com reported
:operating system
:From: "Netcraft Webmaster" <webmaster@netcraft.com>
:Date: Wed, November 5, 2008 7:53 am
:To: justin@shiningsilence.com
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:
:...
:We detect the operating system based on characteristics of the TCP packets
:received from the server when making HTTP connections. Probably the TCP/IP
:stack of DragonFly BSD is little changed from FreeBSD; it looks just like
:FreeBSD to us. If you're able to suggest any differences in the TCP stack,
:we could take a look at adding detection.
:
:The only thing that might be different by default is that DragonFly BSD
:apparently has random IP IDs by default (he says from just a brief skim of
:some release notes); but since that's available as an option for FreeBSD
:too, it doesn't seem like a good way to tell them apart.
:
:--
: Colin Phipps
: Netcraft
There are almost certainly differences in how we handle SACK, since
we have a completely independant implementation of SACK then FreeBSD
does (Jeff did ours from scratch).
We also aggregate TCP ACKs under heavy networking loads, but that may
not be testable over a WAN. It really only shows up on GiGE or faster.
I think their best bet is to characterize our SACK implementation.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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