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Re: [tcpm] 64-bit sequence numbers

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Wed, 15 March 2017 20:31 UTC

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Hi, Mark (et al.),

I was thinking about this too, but as I recall the challenge was legacy
fallback.

I'm not convinced the proposed approach has safe fallback either, though.

Joe


On 3/15/2017 6:32 AM, Mark Allman wrote:
> I haven't read your document (although I'm putting it on my list of
> things to look at).  But, I am going to leave this 11 year old piece
> of tripe here ...
>
>     https://www.icir.org/mallman/share/draft-allman-tcpx2-hack-00.txt
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> (At one point I had a student implement this and it isn't all that
> difficult and can in fact co-exist with current TCP and largely use
> the same code path for both "versions" of TCP.  Alas, it wasn't
> properly finished and written up / code released / etc.---which is
> clearly my fault.)
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