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To: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Who wants SACK? (Re: was My planned work on networking stack)
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Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@freebsd.org> writes:
> What Luigi says is absolutely correct.  It doesn't take a lot to
> get this done.  I've talked to a number of companies about implementing
> SACK for them and while there was interest, no one wanted to fund
> it all themselves, potentially for the benefit of their competitors.

Just for giggles, what kind of money are we talking here?  I might be
able to liberate funds for work that improves network performance in
the high end.

DES
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