[tcpm] On TCP option codepoints
"Scharf, Michael (Michael)" <michael.scharf@alcatel-lucent.com> Tue, 08 October 2013 12:50 UTC
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From: "Scharf, Michael (Michael)" <michael.scharf@alcatel-lucent.com>
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Hi all, I've performed today a small and very nonscientific experiment: For all TCP option codepoints N marked as "Reserved" on http://www.iana.org/assignments/tcp-parameters/tcp-parameters.xhtml, I entered the term "tcp option N" in a major Internet search engine and applied a special, human ranking by post-processing the first 5 results for the exact match, if available. To ensure that only the data analysis tool is proprietary and biased, but not in the data source, I also verified the key result in a second major search engine, and I used hex values for N as well ;) The result of this small experiment resulted in two surprising news (well, that was actually to be expected, but I wasn't aware of it): - For N= 38 (0x26), there are several links to official product documentation - For N= 101 (0x65), there are several product-related links, but no official product documentation There is also a single hit for N= 171 (0xab), but the sample size seems too small even for an entirely nonscientific method ;) Also, note that I cannot verify the quality and correctness of the two data sources. The method does not work well for N= 64 and N= 128. The good news is that the two data sources didn't find any exact match for most other values of N... Michael
- [tcpm] On TCP option codepoints Scharf, Michael (Michael)
- Re: [tcpm] On TCP option codepoints Wesley Eddy
- Re: [tcpm] On TCP option codepoints Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] On TCP option codepoints Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] On TCP option codepoints Wesley Eddy
- Re: [tcpm] On TCP option codepoints Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] On TCP option codepoints Mark Allman
- Re: [tcpm] On TCP option codepoints Scharf, Michael (Michael)
- Re: [tcpm] On TCP option codepoints Joe Touch