Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:27:48 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, Brian White <bwhite@moab.cs.utah.edu>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SACK (and older TCP stack) availability? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202211427100.69443-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20020221134407.B52538@iguana.icir.org>
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tehn we need to tell teh author.. he seems to want then to be used . I'm sure he'd be reponsive to being told about the problems.. On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 01:54:20AM +0000, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > > > > I tracked a thread from Aug 2001 in which Harkirat Singh announced his > > > SACK implementation. But, this thread seems to have ended prematurely and > > > grep'ing for SACK in current does not turn up anything interesting. What > > > is it's status? Was the 4.3 SACK diff stable? > > > > I never got time to test it, nor did any other committer I'm aware of. > > If someone were to do some good testing of the patch and post the results, > > that would be highly helpful in getting it on the road to being committed. > > Unadvocated patches ususally don't get committed. > > I actually looked at the patches, and by visual inspection, > they broke the flow for standard TCP connections when SACK > was disabled. This was also verified with TBIT. > So even if the SACK implementation was correct > (which I haven't checked in detail) they are a no-go > unless someone puts significant work on them. > > cheers > luigi > ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- > Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . ICSI (on leave from Univ. di Pisa) > http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . 1947 Center St, Berkeley CA 94704 > Phone: (510) 666 2927 > ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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