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From: mycroft@zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: any work on SACKS under netbsd?
Date: 16 Aug 1996 12:29:33 -0400
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bfriedma@jarok.cs.ohiou.edu (Boris A. Friedman) writes:

> 
> I am wondering, has anyone done any work on SACK (selective
> acknowledgements) in the netbsd TCP code? I know it's available under
> BSDI, but seems a pain to port.

Jamshid Mahdavi has written an implementation for NetBSD.  It needs to
be ported from 1.1 to 1.2, and it's not particularly efficient when
you have a long pipe, but it's a start.