Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Sep 1998 19:11:04 +0800 (SGT) | From | Lim Fung <> | Subject | Re: Very poor TCP/SACK performance |
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On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Felix von Leitner wrote:
| While we are at it: that would explain the poor PPP throughput if the | TCP end is a Linux system, too! Does IRIX 6 support SACK, perchance? | | | Why is Linux using SACK, anyway? | Stevens refers to it like "yeah, the BSD people implemented it once, but | it didn't work so it was discarded and is now obsolete". | | And, you know, if Stevens says so, I'd be tempted to just accept this as | God given and be done with it. What was the reason to add SACK support | to Linux? Almost no system under the sun seems to support it, anyway. | Right?
Nope, Solaris 2.6 has a patch that supports SACK, and I believe that the new M$ Winsock 2.0 supports SACK.
Overall, SACK would be beneficial to an environment with high bandwidth-latency product, esp in a satellite link.
lf.
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