On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:22:10PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:24:31AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, SACK is often looked upon as a waste of effort to those > > who use nets in more commercial forms where aggregation of lots of small > > streams is how fat pipes are used. Research big science are about the > > only ones who have a real need for this kind of performance and it's > > growing fast. Without SACK, FreeBSD will be a non-starter for these > > purposes. > > 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. >
Has anyone looked at Luigi's stuff? http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/sack.html The page states that Luigi had SACK available in FreeBSD 2.1R, which was released 8 years ago. -- Steve _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
