On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 15:51:02 +1300 Ian McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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. I am starting do setup a regression test, but it still in the planning stages. I hope to merge existing tests with existing automation tools. The analysis might be more difficult than the tests though. > 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 - 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
