From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:12:47 +0200 (EET)
> If I'd hint my boss that I'm involved in something like this I'd > bet that he also would get quite crazy... ;-) I'm partially paid > for making TCP more RFCish :-), or at least that the places where > thing diverge are known and controllable for research purposes. RFCs are great guides by which to implement things, but they have been often completely wrong or not practicle to follow strictly. The handling of out of order ACKs with timestamps is my favorite example. Nobody performs an RFC compliant timestamp check on ACK packets, or else their performance would go into the toilet during packet reordering. The URG bit setting is another one. Especially when, practically speaking, we can in fact make changes like I believe we can here I think we should. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
