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From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Removing T/TCP and replacing it with something simpler
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:33:17PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> I intend to remove T/TCP (transactional TCP) support from our TCP
> implementation for the following reasons:

Go ahead and kill the old thing, it's time. I agree.

> 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.

Regards,
BMS