My planned work on networking stack

[Steve Kargl]

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