LEDBAT (RFC-6817)i n FreeBSD as mod_cc(9)?

hiren panchasara hiren.panchasara at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 07:41:36 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Lev Serebryakov <lev at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hello, Freebsd-net.
>
>   It looks like, that some TCP connections could benefit from LEDBAT
>  (RFC-6871) cognestion control algorithm (not all, of course, it should not
>  be default).
>
>   Also, it looks like Apple implements one
>   (http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1699.32.7/bsd/netinet/tcp_ledbat.c),
>  but it uses much more "callbacks" from TCP/SCTP core to CC module, that
>  FreeBSD has.
>
>   Does somebody evaluate, is it possible to bring LEDBAT to FreeBSD?

I'd guess there is nothing wrong in having this as a cc module.
Someone has to do the necessary legwork :-)

cheers,
Hiren


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