Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 20:10:16 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: NetBSD network code improvements Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980501200803.28278k-100000@alive.znep.com> In-Reply-To: <199805012330.QAA11741@implode.root.com>
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On Fri, 1 May 1998, David Greenman wrote: > >[ discussion copied to freebsd-net, please remove -current when replying ] > > > >On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 02:13:51PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > >> We should think carefully about what WE actually WANT to do (which is > >> not necessarily the same as what NASA is paying Jason to do). > > > >I think A lot of their stuff is generally useful, the MTU discovery > >stuff for example (although I don't exactly know what is in -current > >and maybe we don't need to integrate NetBSD stuff). > > We've had Path MTU Discovery in FreeBSD for a couple of years now. It > includes support for timing out clone routes. The one useful addition to FreeBSD PMTU-D that I can think of right now would be blackhole detection. It is a PITA and is just a workaround for broken networks that ends up badly hurting performance, but it does let things work when they otherwise wouldn't. That is good (because they work) and bad (because people don't fix the problem and just think FreeBSD is slow), but... AFAIK, NT does blackhole discovery. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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