On 10/19, Jakub Sitnicki wrote: > Hey Stan, > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 02:45 PM -07, Stanislav Fomichev wrote: > > On 10/13, Willem Ferguson wrote: > > [...] > > >> Questions for reviewers: > >> > >> 1. Is encoding an identifier in the low bits of TSval acceptable in > >> principle, given the trade-offs above? > >> 2. If so, what feedback do you have on the implementation? > > > > Don't see any feedback yet, so from the top of my head: looks like you > > control two sides of the communication, so why not a custom (bpf) tcp > > option? > > Would you need that on every packet and it makes it expensive? > > > > Or any other field you can abuse maybe? IPv6 Flow label? > > Nah, we don't control the client unfortunately. > > Client here is any device that connects to our edge PoP.
I see, so you rely on the fact that it gets mirrored back.. Btw, looks like there is already some similar tsoffset/ts_off infra? Have you considered plugging into that?
