Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:16:05 +0200 From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who wants SACK? (Re: was My planned work on networking stack) Message-ID: <404E4225.5040700@he.iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <20040309160821.P705@odysseus.silby.com> References: <20040309214205.3EE2D5D07@ptavv.es.net> <20040309160821.P705@odysseus.silby.com>
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Mike Silbersack wrote: >SACK itself really doesn't do much, it's all the new congestion control >schemes (FACK, Rate Halving, etc) that come shipped with most SACK >implementations that do the work and contain most of the complexity. > > And all this would be non-issue within normal operational context if routers would contain adequate buffering and not run crappy software which drops packets by default even without congestion. Petehome | help
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