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Subject: Re: My planned work on networking stack
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>  > This reminded me - do you know what happened to the plan to implement
>  > SACK for FreeBSD? I'm working with a research group that's interested
>
>  what plan, there never was one :)
>
>  cheers
>  luigi (who wrote some FreeBSD SACK code back in 1996!)

There has been the "enternal" debate, clean up the stack and/or add features
or the resistance to commit the clean up and/or new features.

IMO, in the world that is growing ever more wireless, SACK, ECN, and RFC3042
*should be* automatically in the TCP stack or we are at a competitive
disadvantage. These could be added pretty easily.
 
--Mark Tinguely.