Who wants SACK? (Re: was My planned work on networking stack)

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:32 PM -0800 2004/03/08, Jeffrey Hsu wrote:

>  What Luigi says is absolutely correct.  It doesn't take a lot to
>  get this done.  I've talked to a number of companies about implementing
>  SACK for them and while there was interest, no one wanted to fund
>  it all themselves, potentially for the benefit of their competitors.

	Out of curiosity, can someone provide some pointers as to where 
SACK really helps?  Is this just for high-speed WANs and doesn't help 
on LANs, or is it useful in both contexts?  Also, at what 
speeds/packet sizes does SACK start to become really useful?

	I'm just wondering if there aren't a lot of people who could 
benefit from something like this, only they don't know it.  If they 
were to find out, it might help provide funding and other resources 
to spur development.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
     -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+
!w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++)
tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)