On 10/12/07, Gerrit Renker <gerrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [DCCP]: Leave headroom for options when calculating the MPS > > The Maximum Packet Size (MPS) is of interest for applications which want > to transfer data, so it is only relevant to the data transfer phase of a > connection (unless one wants to send data on the DCCP-Request, but that is > not considered here). > > The strategy chosen to deal with this requirement is to leave room for only > such options that may appear on data packets. > > This excludes in particular variable-length options such as Ack Vector: > as detailed in section 11.2 of RFC 4340, such options can use a separate > Ack if a current DataAck packet does not have sufficient room left. > > There are currently no CCID-specific header options which may appear on data > packets, hence it is not necessary to define a corresponding CCID field. > > Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dccp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
