> Seriously, where's the value in comparing buggy implementations - isn't > that just a waste of all our time ? If we are genuine about wanting to > understand tcp performance then I think we just have to take the hit from > issues such as this that are outside all of our control. > A real part of the problem here is that the Linux doesn't have a full TCP testing suite and doesn't have build checking to check for regressions in TCP variants. As I understand the only thing tested in nightly builds is throughput for the default TCP.
Stephen Hemminger has done some work on TCP Probes but this is where I think real progress could be made in improving Linux TCP. I may get around to doing this myself at some point in my research but would welcome other people doing it also! Ian -- Ian McDonald http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 WAND Network Research Group University of Waikato New Zealand - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
