Re: Window Scale option

[Matt Mathis <[e-mail]>]

>In any case, I see no reason why TCPs cannot exchange timestamp options
>n the SYN exchange to enable the feature, then suspend sending
>time stamps whenever they want (e.g., when the connection throughput
>falls below some threshold?)  Am I missing something?

I considered this approach, but the difficulty is that there is no
distiction between "timestamp" and "timestamp reply".  Thus turning
off timestamps requires having some way to discover that the other end
isn't using them.  For example the value zero could be used to indicate
that a reply is not needed.

I have long since forgotten the details....

--MM--