Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:12:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Chris Arnold <chris@arnold.se> To: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP ECN patch to be committed Message-ID: <20080730040811.T70776@sql.infotropic.com> In-Reply-To: <20080730020254.GT72093@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <20080730010452.GA856@epsilon.local> <20080730020254.GT72093@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > 0n Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:04:52AM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote: > > >After some chat with other TCP folks I'm going to commit the TCP ECN patch > >I asked for review a couple months ago with some changes. Most notably is > >the new padding fields added to the syncache struct. > > Um, what is "TCP ECN" ? Nutshell summary please ? > "Explicit Congestion Notification", if negotiated the endpoints in a tcp session can notify eachother of congestion without waiting for dropped packets. This helps in reducing latency and jitter. Short enough? /Chris -- http://www.arnold.se/ http://www.mbit.us/
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