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Subject: Re: Removing T/TCP and replacing it with something simpler 
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In message <4177C8AD.6060706@freebsd.org>, Andre Oppermann writes:
>I want to bring this up for discussion prior to start working on it.
>
>I intend to remove T/TCP (transactional TCP) support from our TCP
>implementation for the following reasons:

Yeah, go for it!

>However something like T/TCP is certainly useful and I know of one special
>purpose application using it (Web Proxy Server/Client for high-delay Satellite
>connections).

Wouldn't that be inferior to what accept-filters gives us ?

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