From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 22:42:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4497616A4CE; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:42:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from snafu.adept.org (adsl-67-117-158-73.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.117.158.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AE143D46; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:42:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@adept.org) Received: by snafu.adept.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D3A7A9EEE8; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:42:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snafu.adept.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC52E9B148; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:42:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:42:31 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Hoskins To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040309223939.O87362@snafu.adept.org> References: <200403082325.i28NPAa3010399@mtaw6.prodigy.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who wants SACK? (Re: was My planned work on networking stack) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:42:38 -0000 On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > 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. that'd be cool, and i wish i could as well. with the non-profit status of the foundation though, i can at least make personal donations. all this talk about network features/tuning has me grinning ear to ear. thanks to everyone putting in the time/effort. the thing is... it's kind of sad more of the companies that have built their products on *BSD don't donate regularly. i know plenty of companies with appliances, products, etc. built on FreeBSD... is there any sort of "PR" person for the project that could make a semi-regular habit of soliciting these orgs? i know it'd be hard to do correctly, but it just seems like the "right" thing to do and could get a lot of corporate funding... which seems like what would help the most. -m -- "Information Warfare? Given the state of the industry, what we need is Information Welfare." --Richard A Steenbergen