[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("ipver four") writes:
>Is there a reason for including the timestamp option on most of the TCP
>packets?
The TCP timestamp option is used to obtain better round-trip time
estimates than can be obtained without, and these estimates turn out
to be important in networks with large bandwidth*delay products.
Timestamps in the timestamp option also cycle much more slowly than
sequence numbers on an active high-speed connection and can thus be used
to detect and discard old duplicate packets with apparently valid sequence
numbers.
RFC 1323 explains the details.
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