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

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Mon, 02 June 2014 18:12 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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On 6/2/2014 11:08 AM, Scharf, Michael (Michael) wrote:
>> Also, I'd like to know if OSes actually do consult the TS value in the
>> 3WHS to try to hunt for old packets.  I have no idea.  Does anyone
>> know?
>> (Either answer wouldn't surprise me, actually.)
>
> Well, I don't know.
>
> But a related thought: In 1323bis we actually mention a random,
> per-connection offset. Such a logic in the 3WHS would have to take
> different offsets into account, right?

Offsets should always move the clock forward; if they don't - if one 
offset is smaller than another for the same port pair - then 1323bis got 
it wrong.

Joe

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