From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 02:13:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1ACA106566C for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:13:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lstewart@freebsd.org) Received: from lauren.room52.net (lauren.room52.net [210.50.193.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C9FF8FC17 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:13:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lawrence1.loshell.room52.net (ppp59-167-184-191.static.internode.on.net [59.167.184.191]) by lauren.room52.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D878A7E880; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:56:12 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <4D33A1BC.2090000@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:56:12 +1100 From: Lawrence Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-AU; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101214 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: <4D31BDB4.9030904@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on lauren.room52.net Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, William Allen Simpson Subject: Re: TCP resident expert? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:13:22 -0000 [trimming freebsd-current@ and moving to more canonical freebsd-net@] On 01/16/11 23:15, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, William Allen Simpson wrote: > >> Who's the kernel expert on TCP around here? ISC wants me to port >> TCPCT to FreeBSD. Although I've joined this list (some time ago), >> I've not seen any traffic discussing TCP'ish things. Need somebody >> willing to walk me through the processes and check my code. > > I don't think there's any single "the" expert -- rather, work on TCP is > distributed over a number of developers who take various interests in > the topic. At the risk of pointing fingers: > > Lawrence Stewart has recently been involved in pluggable > congestion control, new congestion control algorithms, TCP tracing, and > various other things, and has been among our most active hands in TCP > for the last year especially. He might be the best first port of call > because of this recent activity. I've been loosely following Bill's work on TCPCT since early last year and although I have an interest in it, I've had no spare cycles to contribute anything concrete to the discussion, specification or implementation effort. I'd be happy to eyeball patches but it would be good to get others involved as well if possible - I'm stretched too thin to be reliably useful at the moment and for the foreseeable future. Andre would definitely be a good reviewer for this work. Others of course welcome. Cheers, Lawrence