TCP Extensions for High Performance
RFC 7323
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(September 2014; Errata)
Obsoletes RFC 1323
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|---|---|---|---|
| Last updated | 2018-12-29 | ||
| Replaces | draft-borman-1323bis | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
| Reviews | |||
| Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
| Document shepherd | Pasi Sarolahti | ||
| Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2013-12-15) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 7323 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Martin Stiemerling | ||
| Send notices to | (None) | ||
| IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
| IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) D. Borman
Request for Comments: 7323 Quantum Corporation
Obsoletes: 1323 B. Braden
Category: Standards Track University of Southern California
ISSN: 2070-1721 V. Jacobson
Google, Inc.
R. Scheffenegger, Ed.
NetApp, Inc.
September 2014
TCP Extensions for High Performance
Abstract
This document specifies a set of TCP extensions to improve
performance over paths with a large bandwidth * delay product and to
provide reliable operation over very high-speed paths. It defines
the TCP Window Scale (WS) option and the TCP Timestamps (TS) option
and their semantics. The Window Scale option is used to support
larger receive windows, while the Timestamps option can be used for
at least two distinct mechanisms, Protection Against Wrapped
Sequences (PAWS) and Round-Trip Time Measurement (RTTM), that are
also described herein.
This document obsoletes RFC 1323 and describes changes from it.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7323.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. TCP Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. TCP Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3. Using TCP options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.4. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2. TCP Window Scale Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.2. Window Scale Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.3. Using the Window Scale Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.4. Addressing Window Retraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3. TCP Timestamps Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.2. Timestamps Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4. The RTTM Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.2. Updating the RTO Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.3. Which Timestamp to Echo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5. PAWS - Protection Against Wrapped Sequences . . . . . . . . . 19
5.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.2. The PAWS Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.3. Basic PAWS Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.4. Timestamp Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.5. Outdated Timestamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.6. Header Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.7. IP Fragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.8. Duplicates from Earlier Incarnations of Connection . . . 26
6. Conclusions and Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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