netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] Only parse time stamp TCP option in time wait sock

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Message-ID: <4ADED915.7000107@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:49:09 -0400
From:	William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@...il.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] Only parse time stamp TCP option in time wait
 sock

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
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