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From: Stefan Esser <se@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, olah@freefall.freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org,
        jkh@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: SACK and other TCP modifications available
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Luigi Rizzo writes:
 > It would be nice if someone could try some of the changes below
 > and send some feedback, and possibly arrange to include this in
 > -current sources.
 > 
 > 	Luigi
 > -----------
 > 
 > The file "sack.diffs", available from
 > 
 > 	http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/research.html
 > 
 > includes a number of modifications to TCP designed to improve
 > performance in presence of losses, namely:
 > - MODIFIED FAST RETRANSMIT
 > - NEWRENO
 > - SACK (Selective Acknowledgements)
 > - TSACK (Selective Acknowledgements in RFC1323 timestamps)
 > 
 > The software is in alpha stage, although it has been running for
 > a couple of weeks in intermediate formats, and it is running on a
 > couple of our systems since Aug.26 1996.
 > 
 > MODIFIED FAST RETRANSMIT is really helpful on lossy links, and does
 > not need modifications at the receive side. Same for NEWRENO.

Hi Luigi!

I tried to contact the URL you gave above,
but with no success at all :(

And I really could make good use of those
TCP patches, since I got as lossy a link
as anybody could possibly imagine :)

Is there another site that offers your 
patches ?

How about uploading them to Freefall ?

Regards, STefan