netdev - Re: [PATCH] Clock-independent TCP ISN generation

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Message-ID: <db9ad0f0-9aa8-4002-60e3-57124ef619ba@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 3 Sep 2019 18:16:10 +0200
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Cyrus Sh <sirus.shahini@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     shiraz.saleem@...el.com, jgg@...pe.ca, arnd@...db.de,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, sirus@...utah.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clock-independent TCP ISN generation



On 9/3/19 6:12 PM, Cyrus Sh wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/3/19 9:59 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
>> You could add a random delay to all SYN packets, if you believe your host has clock skews.
> 
> And by the way adding delays has its own performance penalties.
> 


You understand your patch has been rejected, right ?

You will have to convince people at IETF and get a proper RFC before
I even look at the idea.

BTW, sending a patch only dealing with IPv4 is also not a good thing.