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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.

Pete



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