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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] linux il/ip
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:48:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76b4a303fc6e2bad8f571e9e9b1cee95@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4518EE05.60007@Utel.no>

also it has extra cruft like mtu discovery and multihoming
of both source and destination.  this means that sctp is ~29kloc
and tcp is 14kloc of code in the linux kernel.  but sctp doesn't
have connections.

il in plan 9 is ~1kloc. so i think my parody is still apt.

- erik

On Tue Sep 26 04:08:52 CDT 2006, NOS@Utel.no wrote:
> erik quanstrom wrote:
> > from what i can tell, SCTP combines the limitations of il with the complexity of tcp.
> > i think porting il to linux would be more useful.
> > 
> 
> It does have congestion and flow control, which is some of the 
> limitations of IL.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-26 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <000901c6e0fe$c6d4aee0$14aaa8c0@utelsystems.local>
2006-09-26  9:08 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-09-26 11:48   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2006-09-26 13:56     ` Artem Letko
2006-09-25 23:17 Re: " Christopher Nielsen
2006-09-25 23:56 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-26  8:12   ` Martin Neubauer
2006-09-26 11:44     ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-26 13:53       ` Artem Letko
2006-09-26 15:14         ` Charles Forsyth
2006-09-26 17:18           ` Russ Cox
2006-09-26 17:42             ` Brantley Coile
2006-09-26 18:05               ` jmk
2006-09-26 20:31               ` geoff
2006-09-28  3:33             ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-27  1:08         ` Christopher Nielsen
2006-09-28  3:28           ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] <000601c6cb2a$2a9f3660$14aaa8c0@utelsystems.local>
2006-08-29  6:39 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-08-29 10:15   ` Sergey Zhilkin
2006-08-29 14:54     ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-28 15:56 erik quanstrom
2006-08-28 16:32 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2006-08-28 16:43   ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-28 16:56     ` Sergey Zhilkin
2006-08-28 17:12       ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-28 17:31         ` geoff
2006-08-28 17:51           ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-29  4:56           ` lucio
2006-08-29 14:37             ` Brantley Coile
2006-08-29 17:05               ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-08-29 19:49                 ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-29 20:43                   ` jmk
2006-08-29 22:29                     ` Brantley Coile
2006-08-29 23:15                       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-08-31 11:15                     ` Dave Lukes
2006-09-01 16:14                       ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-29 20:38               ` geoff
2006-08-29 22:27                 ` Brantley Coile
2006-08-29  4:53     ` lucio

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