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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!newsreader.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!news.swan.ac.uk!iialan From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: 15 Jul 1996 18:43:38 GMT Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4se3gq$7fl@news.swan.ac.uk> References: <31E7B8A5.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4s8rtp$jsh@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E805B5.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: iifeak.swan.ac.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45305 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23647 In article <31E805B5.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> writes: >Why was the networking suite re-developed from scratch by the Linux >team to get (eventually) essentially the same performance? That is >where the waste really is. (Also Linux could have brought the BSD >suite under GPL, and encumbered it very nicely also.) You know that perfectly well. In fact you've repeated that paticular pile of bullshit repeatedly 1. At the time Linux needed networking the BSD folks were all rather busy with a little lawsuit with AT&T and BSD code was best assumed contaminated 2. The GPL and BSD licenses (the traditional one with documentation and advertising credit) clash Given the choice I'd have taken the BSD code GPL'd it and un mbuf'd it. It would have saved me 18 months work and gone about as fast when we'd finished reconstructing it. Alan -- ----------------------------------------------//// Yow! 233 microsecond remote host TCP latency ---- beat that --------------------------------------------////__________ o Alan Cox, Alan.Cox@linux.org /_____________/ / /\/ /_/ ><