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Date:      Sat, 26 Jul 1997 15:16:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Lars Eggert <larse@usc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Who is working on the TCP stack?
Message-ID:  <199707261916.PAA23440@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <v03110702afffe4dd62e2@[128.125.224.118]>
References:  <199707261622.QAA00289@ubiq.veda.is> <v03110702afffe4dd62e2@[128.125.224.118]>

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<<On Sat, 26 Jul 1997 09:39:02 -0800, Lars Eggert <larse@usc.edu> said:

> and sorry if this not the right place to ask. I will be implementing some
> changes to TCP as part of a research project during the fall (if you are
> interested, see RFC 2140, "TCP Control Block Interdependence." J. Touch.
> April 1997.)

> I was wondering, if anybody else is working on the TCP stack at this time.
> Would -current be the right place to implement those changes, or should I
> stick with -stable? Is there anything else I should be aware of?

There are a group of people who have been working on and off on
various network issues, of which I am a member.  The people in the
CAIRN consortium have been doing a lot of work as well, but since they
don't talk much to me I don't know what they are up to.  I don't think
that anyone is working on TCP in particular at this point (I could be
wrong); certainly if I had the time I would like to, but I haven't had
any time to spare for the past couple of months, and when I have had
the time, -current has been broken (sigh).

Certainly current is the right platform to target; there have been and
will continue to be substantial ongoing changes in the basic
substructure of the networking code which make it unlikely that any
efforts based on 2.2 will easily carry into the main line of
development.

If you're up for a major re-working of the TCP implementation, let me
know and I'll give you a few notions of the way we're headed.

-GAWollman

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