From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Allen Simpson Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] Only parse time stamp TCP option in time wait sock Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:49:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4ADED915.7000107@gmail.com> References: <1256115421-12714-1-git-send-email-gilad@codefidence.com> <1256115421-12714-2-git-send-email-gilad@codefidence.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f202.google.com ([209.85.211.202]:56273 "EHLO mail-yw0-f202.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751724AbZJUJtI (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:49:08 -0400 Received: by ywh40 with SMTP id 40so4324255ywh.33 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:49:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1256115421-12714-2-git-send-email-gilad@codefidence.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > A time wait socket is established - we already know if time stamp > option is called for or not. > Not so sure about this. A timewait sock isn't actually established, and new/changed options could appear. There's all sorts of edge cases. There's also some current work to note: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-1323bis http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gont-tcpm-tcp-timestamps