Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 22:49:06 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who wants SACK? (Re: was My planned work on networking stack) Message-ID: <30fq405i2avcsqbfbpsdi18uevl193527u@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <200403082325.i28NPAa3010399@mtaw6.prodigy.net> References: <rizzo@icir.org> of "Mon, 08 Mar 2004 10:56:42 PST." <20040308105641.A47564@xorpc.icir.org> <200403082325.i28NPAa3010399@mtaw6.prodigy.net>
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On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:32:37 -0800, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: > >> I know that our organization would love to see SACK. Much of the > >> high-performance network development that used to be on FreeBSD has > >> moved to Linux simply because SACK is essential. You can't run > >> trans-oceanic TCP streams of gigabit or more throughput without it. > > > > Whenever i hear these comments, i am very annoyed at one thing > > (which in a smaller scale repeats all over the place): > > people are more than happy to spend big money for things like > > routers or bandwidth or any kind of "commercial" stuff, but when > > it comes to open source it must be free or nothing. > > > > I hope it is clear to everyone that an investment in the 50K$ > > range would provide a professional-grade implementation of SACK > > for FreeBSD, and this money is in the noise for any organization > > that uses trans-oceanic gigabit links. > > The fact that nobody seems to care about funding such a work > > either means that whatever is available already fits their > >What Luigi says is absolutely correct. It doesn't take a lot to >get this done. We (Sentex) recently sponsored bms@freebsd.org to implement RFC 2385 for a bargin price. We were faced with the choice to spend the money on one cisco router or fund the development... It was a no brainer. >Perhaps if we could pool enough interest, we can raise enough to >put this issue to rest once and for all. We dont have the funds to underwrite all of it, but would contribute. ---Mikehelp
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