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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:49:26 +0100
From:      "Per Hurtig (work)" <per.hurtig@kau.se>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   TCP gets special treatment?
Message-ID:  <a846cbcf0901280249w31265880x88c60762a111b7d8@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi,

How differently are TCP packets treated compared to e.g. SCTP packets,
while traversing the FreeBSD network stack (up to and including the
IP-layer when using ipfw)?. I do not assume that the firewall (ipfw)
is explicitly configured to check for established sessions or any TCP
specifics. Are there a lot of TCP-specific optimizations conducted by
lower layers anyways (besides possible checksum offloading)?

BR, Per



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