Re: [tcpm] timestamp options (was Re: New Version Notification for draft-touch-tcpm-tcp-edo-01.txt)

Mark Allman <mallman@icir.org> Fri, 27 June 2014 12:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] timestamp options (was Re: New Version Notification for draft-touch-tcpm-tcp-edo-01.txt)
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[catching up after a long, pretty-much-offline vacation]

Just a quick note ..

> Or we can just (dynamically) start tagging TS on retransmission to
> support Eifel.

The pushback against this has always been that if you are retransmitting
a full packet and only add a TS on the retransmission, now you have to
retransmit two packets to convey all the lost data.

allman