Removing T/TCP and replacing it with something simpler

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:33:17PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> I intend to remove T/TCP (transactional TCP) support from our TCP
> implementation for the following reasons:
..

Fine.
 
> Thus after the removal of T/TCP for the reasons above I want to provide
> a work-alike replacement for T/TCP's functionality:
..
> This different implementation will be disabled by default and clearly
> marked EXPERIMENTAL in a protocol sense.  It will allow the only known
> user of T/TCP to keep the same functionality with a very small change
> to his application.  It allows interesting new uses primarily in
> Intranet environment where many short connections are openend in rapid
> succession (LDAP servers, SQL servers, etc.).  The modifications to
> those programs to use the new option is minimal and requires only the
> setting of the socket option, one setsockopt() call.

I'm not so happy with a FreeBSD-only "proprietary" thing.  Is there any
proposed RFC work that provides the qualities you want?  The advantage
with T/TCP is that there was a published standard.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)