From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jul 12 9:47:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (cb58709-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.17.241.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4A237B5EB for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:47:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@flugsvamp.com) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA51172; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:52:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:52:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <200007121652.LAA51172@prism.flugsvamp.com> To: jpsp@rccn.net, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Enable SACK X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-isp In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article you write: > >On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > >> In the last episode (Jul 12), Joao Pagaime said: >> > >> > How do I enable selective acknowledges (rfc2018/SACK) on a fBSD3.3 ? >> > >> > I can't find anything interesting with "sysctl", nor in the LINT >> > kernel configuration file, however there's a lot of references to it >> > on the kernel source files. >> > I enabled rfc1323 but I believe this doesn't directly activate >> > elective acknowledges (at least rfc1323 states so). >> >> FreeBSD doesn't support TCP SACK, unfortunately. > >Why not? Does anyone happen to know if there's any >plans for supporting it in the future? Yes, there are some patches for -stable which implement SACK; these will be added as soon as the author feels comfortable with them. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message