On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 03:19:58AM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > 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. > > > > -- Brooks > > In order to make SACK easier to digest, perhaps it should be suggested > that SACK be implemented in stages: > > 1. Internal structures are updated to handle SACK, and the stack handles > the receive side of SACK properly. (The stack advertises itself as SACK > capable, of course.) > > 2. The transmit side of SACK is implemented. > > >From what I recall about SACK, the implementation of part 1 would be > straightforward to verify and therefore easy to integrate. The send side > would, of course, require more attention, and it would be more likely to > get it if it could be reviewed seperately.
We'll definatly keep this in mind. Thanks. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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