Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 09:26:53 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My planned work on networking stack Message-ID: <20040309172653.GC19707@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20040309031549.L49735@odysseus.silby.com> References: <404BA723.C8141806@freebsd.org> <20040308182431.4FA6D5D08@ptavv.es.net> <20040308202210.GB485@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20040309031549.L49735@odysseus.silby.com>
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--H8ygTp4AXg6deix2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 03:19:58AM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: >=20 > On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Brooks Davis wrote: >=20 > > I've got a co-worker who is part of a research group at ISI that > > is doing research on long fat pipes with large streams. They are > > intrested in doing a SACK implementation. I hope to have some more > > information later this week. > > > > -- Brooks >=20 > In order to make SACK easier to digest, perhaps it should be suggested > that SACK be implemented in stages: >=20 > 1. Internal structures are updated to handle SACK, and the stack handles > the receive side of SACK properly. (The stack advertises itself as SACK > capable, of course.) >=20 > 2. The transmit side of SACK is implemented. >=20 > >From what I recall about SACK, the implementation of part 1 would be > straightforward to verify and therefore easy to integrate. The send side > would, of course, require more attention, and it would be more likely to > get it if it could be reviewed seperately. We'll definatly keep this in mind. Thanks. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --H8ygTp4AXg6deix2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFATf5bXY6L6fI4GtQRAnTvAJ9/7q/2Arn9VZheQLJZ90nTY+a+qgCgs2AH IlpKONSo7H5ejqM6n0d+8ro= =75Ly -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --H8ygTp4AXg6deix2--
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