RFC 4782:Quick-Start for TCP and IP
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IP Option


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... We note that in IPv4, a change in IP options at routers requires recalculating the IP header ...


... connection is established if the TCP SYN packet contains an unknown IP option (and for 43% of the Web servers, no connection ...
... router or middlebox dropping the packet because of the IP Option, or a router or middlebox ...
... reasonable, given that a TCP SYN packet today is more likely to be blocked due to policies that discard packets with IP Options than due to policies that discard packets with ECN requests in the TCP header ...


... AH ICV computation purposes, so Quick-Start IP Option data changing en route does not cause problems with existing IPsec AH ...


... wide range of paths in the Internet, TCP SYN packets containing unknown IP options will be dropped. Thus, for the sender one risk in using Quick-Start ...
... RW03] and [RW04] contain measurements of the impact of IP Option Processing on packet round-trip times. ...


... work, and the problems posed by the wide deployment of middleboxes today that block the use of known or unknown IP Options. ...
... IP header, Quick-Start requires the extra complications of an IP Option, which can be difficult to pass through the current Internet [MAF05 ...


... Quick-Start requires an IP Option and a TCP Option. ...
... IP Option ...


... routers along the path. An IP Option about the free buffer size: In related work, [P00 ...
... In related work, [P00] investigates the use of a slightly different IP option for TCP connections to discover the available bandwidth ...
... TCP connections to discover the available bandwidth along the path. In that proposal, the IP option would query the routers ...
... routers along the path about the smallest available free buffer size. Also, the IP option would have been sent after the initial SYN exchange, when the TCP ...


... This document has proposed using an IP Option for the Quick-Start Request from the sender to the receiver ...
... Quick-Start, the equivalent of the Quick-Start IP option would be carried in the ICMP header of the ICMP ...
... Start Request would take the same actions as in the case with the Quick-Start IP Option, and forward the packet to the next router along the path. A router ...
... application-level mechanisms to send a response to the sender, exactly as with the IP Option. One benefit of using ICMP ...
... ICMP would be that the delivery of the TCP SYN packet or other initial packet would not be delayed by IP option processing at routers. A greater advantage is that if middleboxes ...
... traffic in the network, which is not the case when using IP options. ...
... header in the same way as described in the context of IP options earlier. If the RSVP message with the Quick-Start Request object was dropped along the path, the transport ...
... Quick-Start Request was transmitted in a separate packet instead of as an IP option, the transport protocol packet delivery would not be ...
... transport protocol packet delivery would not be delayed due to IP option processing at the routers, and the initial transport ...


... Mattia Rossi and Michael Welzl, On the Impact of IP Option Processing, Preprint-Reihe des Fachbereichs Mathematik - Informatik, No. 15, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria, October 2003. ...
... Mattia Rossi and Michael Welzl, On the Impact of IP Option Processing - Part 2, Preprint-Reihe des Fachbereichs Mathematik - Informatik, No. 26, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria, July 2004. ...



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