Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] Only parse time stamp TCP option in time wait sock

From: William Allen Simpson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:49:09 -0400

Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> A time wait socket is established - we already know if time stamp
> option is called for or not.
> 
Not so sure about this.  A timewait sock isn't actually established,
and new/changed options could appear.  There's all sorts of edge cases.

There's also some current work to note:

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-1323bis

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gont-tcpm-tcp-timestamps