Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 17:18:59 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> To: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@casselton.net> Cc: rizzo@icir.org Subject: Re: My planned work on networking stack Message-ID: <404C9CF3.CBC11F30@freebsd.org> References: <200403081605.i28G5arD037139@casselton.net>
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Mark Tinguely wrote: > > > > > 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. I think these days are over and I have committed a couple of larger changes in the IP code a couple month ago with more to come. So if you have new stuff, bring it on and we will judge it on its merits and code quality. > 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. RFC3042 is already in (done by Jeffrey Hsu) and defaults to enable in -CURRENT along with Inflight and RFC3390. -- Andre
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