From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 17:40:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEAE51065670 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 17:40:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout020.mac.com (asmtpout020.mac.com [17.148.16.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A049C8FC15 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 17:40:00 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp020.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-20.01 64bit (built Nov 21 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LLC008R1P2NP800@asmtp020.mac.com> for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 10:40:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.2.15,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-05-17_04:2011-05-13, 2011-05-17, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1105170095 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 10:39:59 -0700 Message-id: <9250F168-6DD4-41E3-8F4C-39D72A4DF6DC@mac.com> References: <20110517124855.GA25571@insomnia.benzedrine.cx> To: Cole X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: freebsd-net Net Subject: Re: Kern Mod and TCP retrasmit problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 17:40:00 -0000 On May 17, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Cole wrote: > I was hoping to keep this clean, and use existing methods for hooking > into the stream. Also the goal im working for is to be able to use > this on a box doing routing to hopefully get some sort of compression > working between 2 end points. So most of the data would not actual be > generated from userland processes. Why don't you use a userland proxy or routing mechanism which supports compression, like OpenVPN or OpenSSH port forwarding? Regards, -- -Chuck