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Re: [multipathtcp] Time for Long Options?

Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de> Tue, 03 August 2010 15:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [multipathtcp] Time for Long Options?
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Hi,

Am 03.08.2010 11:50, schrieb L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk:
> Joe,
> 
>> As I noted, this problem was explored in numerous contexts in TCPM, and
>> the conclusion was that it was not feasible to extend options in the
>> SYN. That being the critical case, we didn't explore extending options
>> in just the payloads after the connection was established. 
> 
> didn't
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-eddy-tcp-loo
> do just that?

The draft specifies both kinds of extended options.
TCP Long Options (LO) and TCP SYN Long Options (SLO).

Best Regards,
Arnd

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