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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:48:32 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] linux il/ip
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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.