From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 22 15:15:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B036616A4D0 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:15:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from c00l3r.networx.ch (c00l3r.networx.ch [62.48.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B48EE43D45 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:15:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andre@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 87301 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2004 15:13:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) ([62.48.0.53]) (envelope-sender ) by c00l3r.networx.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 22 Oct 2004 15:13:27 -0000 Message-ID: <417923F3.898EDBC8@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:14:59 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marco Molteni References: <4177C8AD.6060706@freebsd.org> <20041021153933.GK13756@empiric.icir.org> <20041021213248.223cab2c.molter@tin.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: bms@spc.org cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing T/TCP and replacing it with something simpler X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:15:01 -0000 Marco Molteni wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:33:17PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > > Thus after the removal of T/TCP for the reasons above I want to > > > > provide a work-alike replacement for T/TCP's functionality: > > > > > > I disagree. I think the time spent here would be better spent on > > > working on an import of SCTP into the kernel, perhaps the KAME code > > > base would be a good starting point. > > > > Is the SCTP in KAME complete and stable? Are there any other (open > > source) implementations of it? > > SCTP in KAME is complete, stable and fully supported. > It is mainly developed by the SCTP RFC author, Randall Stewart. > > A T/TCP alternative as you are describing sounds very > similar to PR-SCTP (Partial Reliability SCTP). (Don't let the > name fool you, please read the internet draft). Yes, but it depends on SCTP and we don't have SCTP in the kernel any time soon. -- Andre