Re: [PATCH 00/19] tcp: Initial support for RFC5925 auth option

From: Francesco Ruggeri
Date: Wed Sep 22 2021 - 16:23:27 EST


On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 9:15 AM Leonard Crestez <cdleonard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Sequence Number Extension not implemented so connections will flap
> every ~4G of traffic.

Could you expand on this?
What exactly do you mean by flap? Will the connection be terminated?
I assume that depending on the initial sequence numbers the first flaps
may occur well before 4G.
Do you use a SNE of 0 in the hash computation, or do you just not include
the SNE in it?

Thanks,
Francesco