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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:02:51 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: agl@...erialviolet.org Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] tcp: Add (limited) SYNACK payload support From: "Adam Langley" <agl@...erialviolet.org> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:56:47 -0700 > This patch implements the draft spec: > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-agl-tcpm-sadata-01.txt > > At the moment, this is just an [RFC] patch because an option number hasn't been > assigned by the IETF yet. > > It allows listening sockets to be configured with a small (<= 64 bytes), > payload that is included in SYN/ACK packets elicited by SYN packets that > include a special option. See the draft linked to above for motivations. > > Additionally, the listening socket can request that the kernel replace 8 bytes > of the payload with random data (that can later be read from the resulting > accepted socket). This looks mostly fine to me. I would even advocate not using a config option for this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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