Re: Transaction TCP patch for Linux

bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl)
Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:59:57 +0100

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On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 04:49:55PM +0000, 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??

I've seen people state that T/TCP is fundamentally broken:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=alan+cox+%22t/tcp%22&hl=en&scoring=d&selm=linux.kernel.E14vGeS-0005Lu-00%40the-village.bc.nu&rnum=2

http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/feb99/0255.html

So I'm not sure if it is worth implementing.

Regards,

bert

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