Who wants SACK? (Re: was My planned work on networking stack)
Mike Tancsa
mike at sentex.net
Mon Mar 8 19:49:02 PST 2004
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:32:37 -0800, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current
you wrote:
> >> I know that our organization would love to see SACK. Much of the
> >> high-performance network development that used to be on FreeBSD has
> >> moved to Linux simply because SACK is essential. You can't run
> >> trans-oceanic TCP streams of gigabit or more throughput without it.
> >
> > Whenever i hear these comments, i am very annoyed at one thing
> > (which in a smaller scale repeats all over the place):
> > people are more than happy to spend big money for things like
> > routers or bandwidth or any kind of "commercial" stuff, but when
> > it comes to open source it must be free or nothing.
> >
> > I hope it is clear to everyone that an investment in the 50K$
> > range would provide a professional-grade implementation of SACK
> > for FreeBSD, and this money is in the noise for any organization
> > that uses trans-oceanic gigabit links.
> > The fact that nobody seems to care about funding such a work
> > either means that whatever is available already fits their
>
>What Luigi says is absolutely correct. It doesn't take a lot to
>get this done.
We (Sentex) recently sponsored bms at freebsd.org to implement RFC 2385
for a bargin price. We were faced with the choice to spend the money
on one cisco router or fund the development... It was a no brainer.
>Perhaps if we could pool enough interest, we can raise enough to
>put this issue to rest once and for all.
We dont have the funds to underwrite all of it, but would contribute.
---Mike
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