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

From: Andre Oppermann (andre_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 10/22/04

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    Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:14:59 +0200
To: Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it>

    Marco Molteni wrote:
    >
    > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> wrote:
    >
    > > Bruce M Simpson wrote:
    > > >
    > > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:33:17PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
    > > > > Thus after the removal of T/TCP for the reasons above I want to
    > > > > provide a work-alike replacement for T/TCP's functionality:
    > > >
    > > > I disagree. I think the time spent here would be better spent on
    > > > working on an import of SCTP into the kernel, perhaps the KAME code
    > > > base would be a good starting point.
    > >
    > > Is the SCTP in KAME complete and stable? Are there any other (open
    > > source) implementations of it?
    >
    > SCTP in KAME is complete, stable and fully supported.
    > It is mainly developed by the SCTP RFC author, Randall Stewart.
    >
    > A T/TCP alternative as you are describing sounds very
    > similar to PR-SCTP (Partial Reliability SCTP). (Don't let the
    > name fool you, please read the internet draft).

    Yes, but it depends on SCTP and we don't have SCTP in the kernel any
    time soon. 

    -- 
Andre
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