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can someone give this option some context and elaborate on the purpose and effects this option has?

--MauriceKA 15:35, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

I hope I have answered this. BruceBarnett (talk) 16:22, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Router at level 4 in the OSI model?

I do not understand why a router would interfere with a TCP option. A router is working at layer 3 only, TCP is layer 4. May be NAT, or a statefull firewall could generate problems. --Mircea.Vutcovici 19:21, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

In Utopia, a router would not do anything at all about it, indeed -- consider an ISP's set of routers, they might try to be smart about their users' choices, perhaps to even out bandwidth loads. It is indeed a question of definition as to what a router is, but most people would not say that a router would even be able to mess up TCP flags, but some do, an claim to be routers, and are widely recognized as such, therefore they are - at least in my opinion - correctly referred to as routers. --80.217.189.62 01:10, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

"It chooses the good value of the option by default." - That sounds like gobbledygook to me, can someone please rephrase? 84.202.177.111 (talk) 14:42, 14 May 2008 (UTC)