Question regd timestamp option

Noritoshi Demizu demizu at dd.iij4u.or.jp
Fri Aug 12 05:34:47 GMT 2005


> Are there other situations when timestamp gets disabled?

In case of active open and net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 is set to non-zero,
one possibility is TCP_NOOPT is turned on by setsockopt().
But I do not know which applications use TCP_NOOPT.

Regards,
Noritoshi Demizu


> From: jha miku <jha0147 at yahoo.com>
> To: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
> Subject: Question regd timestamp option
> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:08:13 -0700 (PDT)
>
> In case of active open, the SYN segments always have
> timestamp enabled, since the RFC flg is set. But,
> Currently, I am seeing some SYN segments without
> timestamp option.
>
> The only condition that I am aware of when timestamp is
> disabled, is on sending the 3rd SYN in retransmit code
> when the timestamp gets disabled.
> looking at the tcpdump, it is unclear why the SYNs are
> sent during active open without timestamp option.
>
> Are there other situations when timestamp gets
> disabled?
> Please let me know.
> Thanks.
>
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