My planned work on networking stack

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 03:19:58AM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 
> > I've got a co-worker who is part of a research group at ISI that
> > is doing research on long fat pipes with large streams.  They are
> > intrested in doing a SACK implementation.  I hope to have some more
> > information later this week.
> >
> > -- Brooks
> 
> In order to make SACK easier to digest, perhaps it should be suggested
> that SACK be implemented in stages:
> 
> 1.  Internal structures are updated to handle SACK, and the stack handles
> the receive side of SACK properly.  (The stack advertises itself as SACK
> capable, of course.)
> 
> 2.  The transmit side of SACK is implemented.
> 
> >From what I recall about SACK, the implementation of part 1 would be
> straightforward to verify and therefore easy to integrate.  The send side
> would, of course, require more attention, and it would be more likely to
> get it if it could be reviewed seperately.

We'll definatly keep this in mind.  Thanks.

-- Brooks

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