Re: Removing T/TCP and replacing it with something simpler

From: David O'Brien (obrien_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 10/21/04

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    Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:51:37 -0700
To: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>

    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. 

    -- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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