Re: Transaction TCP patch for Linux

[Matti Aarnio]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 12:50:02AM +0800, Laurence wrote:
> I'd like to be emailed comments or replies personally.
> 
> Transaction TCP is an extension for TCP. Its performance advantage is
> indisputably better than standard TCP. But only FreeBSD integrates
> TTCP into its kernel. So, I've started T/TCP for Linux at
> http://ttcplinux.sourceforge.net or
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ttcplinux. I'm writing the kernel
> patch for Linux kernel 2.4.2. Is anyone interested in it or have
> anything to say about T/TCP's pros and cons??

  http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~mass/comm.html
  http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~mass/forte96.html

  There Mark Smith shows that T/TCP does not (in all error cases)
  act the _same_ as TCP, although that does not necessarily mean
  it would be wrong.

  Reading  W.R.Stevens' book "TCP/IP Illustriated, Volume 3"
  gives a glimpse of how BSD did things in NET/3 code back
  in early 1994-1996, and there I see many odd bits like
  per-host route entires containing support data..

> Besides, I've finished some basic codes involving:
> 1. new structures
> 2. newly created or modified funtions mainly related to receiving
> 
> If anyone is interested, tell me and I'll send the codes. I don't want 
> to upload the codes in CVS at this moment. At least, I want to have a 
> basic but compile-able one.

/Matti Aarnio