Hi all, I put this up for coordination and cooperation in my planned work on the FreeBSD networking system. This is my todo list of things I want to do from now through summer 04. If you are or intend to work on one of these please step forward so we can coordinate. :-) [] move ARP out of the routing table and instantiate it once per ethernet broadcast domain. (started) [] automatically sizing TCP send buffers to achieve optimal performance over a wide range of bw*delay situations. (in progress) [] establish a testbed for testing and qualification of TCP performance and optimizations over a wide range of network conditions (types, speeds, packet loss ratios, out of order, etc). (started) [] update and write more documentation for the network stack and related code. (started) [] adjust or rewrite the IPFW API to use the PFIL_HOOKS instead of being woven directly into ip input/output. (unless someone else does it) [] move IPv4 routing to its own optimized routing table structure and add multi-path and policy-routing options. (planned) [] profile (don't speculate) common network server usages overall and in specific detail in depth in the network code. (planned) [] write a network statistics (only local, no sniffing) gathering daemon that collects vital real world IP and TCP behaviourial statistics. (planned) [] rewrite (or port over NetBSDs) tcp_reass() function which is currently rather inefficient. (planned) [] remove TTCP complexity and replace it with something along the lines of TCP_MD5SIG to continue to allow fast connection setups but simpler in implementation. (Nothing fixed yet, up for discussion) [] other stuff that I happen to stumble over... ;-) -- AndreReceived on Mon Mar 01 2004 - 13:18:35 UTC
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