[tcpm] usage for timestamp options in the wild

Yoshifumi Nishida <nishida@sfc.wide.ad.jp> Wed, 26 September 2018 17:49 UTC

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Hello,
this is just out of my curiosity.
I've checked traffic archives in CAIDA (https://data.caida.org/datasets/)
and WIDE (http://mawi.wide.ad.jp/mawi/) on a whim and tried to see how many
connections utilize timestamps.

As far as I've checked some archives recently captured, it seems that
around 60-70% TCP connections use timestamp option. But, this ratio seems
to be a bit lower as I thought most of implementations these days support
TS option and activate it by default.
Does anyone have some ideas about it? Am I looking at uncommon data? Or
there are still many old implementations around? Or, many users have
disabled the option for some reasons?
--
Yoshi