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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>
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On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 03:19:58AM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote:
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> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Brooks Davis wrote:
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> > 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
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> In order to make SACK easier to digest, perhaps it should be suggested
> that SACK be implemented in stages:
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> 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.)
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> 2.  The transmit side of SACK is implemented.
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> >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

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