Subject: RE: First SACK-permitted on <SYN,ACK>

From: Bernie Volz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:00:18 -0400

I agree (prohibition should be dropped). It will help to force people to fix
the implementations.

- Bernie Volz
  IPWorks, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Cox [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 9:05 PM
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]; [email-masked]
Subject: Re: First SACK-permitted on <SYN,ACK>

> This prohibition on late TCP options is thwarting at least 2 reasonable
> proposals for TCP options, including the RST error code.

I think the prohibition should just be dropped given the hostile nature of
the net today. Any box with that bug is basically unusable on the internet
anyway