RFC 2883: An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) Option for TCP

This note defines an extension of the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) Option for TCP. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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Incoming relationships (19 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 5925: The TCP Authentication Option
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3539: Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) Transport Profile
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7414: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3708: Using TCP Duplicate Selective Acknowledgement (DSACKs) and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Duplicate Transmission Sequence Numbers (TSNs) to Detect Spurious Retransmissions
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9438: CUBIC for Fast and Long-Distance Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3821: Fibre Channel Over TCP/IP (FCIP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9768: More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification (AccECN) Feedback in TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6582: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4614: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3481: TCP over Second (2.5G) and Third (3G) Generation Wireless Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5682: Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4138: Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP and the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4163: RObust Header Compression (ROHC): Requirements on TCP/IP Header Compression
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4653: Improving the Robustness of TCP to Non-Congestion Events
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4996: RObust Header Compression (ROHC): A Profile for TCP/IP (ROHC-TCP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8961: Requirements for Time-Based Loss Detection
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6846: RObust Header Compression (ROHC): A Profile for TCP/IP (ROHC-TCP)