TCP Fast Open (RFC7413) for FreeBSD

[Rui Paulo]

On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 21:19 -0400, Patrick Kelsey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> About two weeks from now, I will be starting work on server-side TCP 
> Fast
> Open (TFO) support for FreeBSD head and stable/10, with the intention 
> of
> having patches up for review by November.  This message is an attempt 
> to
> uncover any existing work on TFO for FreeBSD, as the existence of 
> such work
> may change my plans.
> 
> Copying Sara Dickinson and Tom Jones due to this thread:
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2015
> -January/040910.html.

Have you performed any measurements on the likelihood that stateful
packet inspectors (firewalls, NATs, etc.) will allow a SYN or a SYN/ACK
to pass with data in it?

How would this interact with our syncache?  Does it just need to store
the cookie?

-- 
Rui Paulo