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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:43:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
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Subject: SO_TIMESTAMP
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<<On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:18:17 +0300, "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi> said:

> Is there a reason why SO_TIMESTAMP does not work with TCP sockets
> but only with RAW and UDP ?

Because it doesn't really make sense?

Since the TCP stream may be arbitrarily re-ordered, knowing when a
packet arrived is not particularly useful to an application.  If you
really care, you should probably use BPF instead.

-GAWollman


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