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Date:      Sun, 12 Apr 1998 01:34:22 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Status of RFC 2018/SACK support?
Message-ID:  <19980412013422.A7152@emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <35304C82.2CF568A0@san.rr.com>; from "Studded" on Sat Apr 11 22:09:22 GMT 1998
References:  <35304C82.2CF568A0@san.rr.com>

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In the last episode (Apr 11), Studded said:
> I am doing some research on RFC 2018 (Selective ACK) support, and I'm
> curious where FBSD stands on it. There are only a few references in
> the archives that it exists, no mention of whether we support it or
> not.

Luigi Rizzo has SACK/TSACK patches for 2.1.6 at
http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/research.html; I have been able to apply
them to both 2.2.6 and 3.0 with only a few rejects.  In fact, the 2.2.6
box I'm typing from still has them in my CVS tree/kernel and they seem
to work.  I can send you diffs if you want, but I can't guarantee that
they _really_ work correctly.  I know nothing about the TCP code at
all, so I could have broken something trying to merge the rejected bits
in.

It looks like there is/was another implementation of SACK onto 2.1.6;
http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/sack.html says that part of its testbed was
2.1.6 machines.

You might want to check out the Yahoo section [ Computers and Internet / 
Information and Documentation / Protocols / TCP/IP /
TCP Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) ] for more info.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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