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[tcpm] 793bis: IP ID

Wesley Eddy <wes@mti-systems.com> Thu, 19 December 2019 17:04 UTC

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Subject: [tcpm] 793bis: IP ID
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While I think Gorry's comment below is pretty much correct, this is 
direct from RFC 1122's material on TCP.  I'm proposing not to change 
anything about this at the moment, since I don't think any harm is done 
by saying this.

On 8/28/2019 11:39 AM, Gorry Fairhurst wrote:
> Section 3.8.1
> OLD:
>    If a retransmitted packet is identical to the original packet (which
>    implies not only that the data boundaries have not changed, but also
>    that the window and acknowledgment fields of the header have not
>    changed), then the same IP Identification field MAY be used (see
>    Section 3.2.1.5 of RFC 1122) (MAY-4).
> - What is this MAY about? Is it about the IPv4 IPID field and is that 
> really
> important for a TCP spec?

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