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Date:      Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:31:54 +0100 (WEST)
From:      Joao Pagaime <jpsp@rccn.net>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Enable SACK
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007121729390.29263-100000@atlas.rccn.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000712092015.A17517@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Jul 12), Joao Pagaime said:
> > 
> > How do I enable selective acknowledges (rfc2018/SACK) on a fBSD3.3 ?
> > 
> > I can't find anything interesting with "sysctl", nor in the LINT
> > kernel configuration file, however there's a lot of references to it
> > on the kernel source files.
> > 	I enabled rfc1323 but I believe this doesn't directly activate
> > elective acknowledges (at least rfc1323 states so).
> 
> FreeBSD doesn't support TCP SACK, unfortunately.  

Why not?  Does anyone happen to know if there's any
plans for supporting it in the future?

Thank for the reply,
Joćo Pagaime


>Luigi Rizzo had
> patches that added it for 2.1.0, but they were never committed, and I
> couldn't get them to apply correctly after 3.0.
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@emsphone.com
> 



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