Re: Who wants SACK? (Re: was My planned work on networking stack)

From: Petri Helenius <pete_at_he.iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:16:05 +0200
Mike Silbersack wrote:

>SACK itself really doesn't do much, it's all the new congestion control
>schemes (FACK, Rate Halving, etc) that come shipped with most SACK
>implementations that do the work and contain most of the complexity.
>  
>
And all this would be non-issue within normal operational context if 
routers would contain adequate buffering and not run crappy software 
which drops packets by default even without congestion.

Pete
Received on Tue Mar 09 2004 - 13:16:15 UTC

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