My planned work on networking stack

Andre Oppermann andre at freebsd.org
Sun Mar 7 14:50:23 PST 2004


David Malone wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:18:34PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> >  [] automatically sizing TCP send buffers to achieve optimal performance
> >     over a wide range of bw*delay situations.  (in progress)
> 
> Hi Andre,
> 
> 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
> in new high speed TCP techniques and they'd prefer to work with
> FreeBSD, but they've been using Linux 'cos they need SACK. They
> might actually be interested in spending some time implementing it,
> if we weren't going to be clashing with anytone else.

I don't know of any current project or effort to implement SACK on
FreeBSD.  It is not on my todo list and it doesn't fit there.  But
I'm available if someone wants to discuss specifics and implementation
details.

-- 
Andre


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