netdev - Re: MPTCP Kernel Developer

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <1428631214.25985.287.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Thu, 09 Apr 2015 19:00:14 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Brian Brandon <Brian@...ity.com>
Cc:	'David Miller' <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@...el.com>
Subject: Re: MPTCP Kernel Developer

On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 01:29 +0000, Brian Brandon wrote:
> David,
> 
> We have been successful building a new unreliable MPTCP and the RTT
> packet scheduler functions correctly with retransmits while discarding
> the acknowledgement (thereby avoiding the dreaded TCP Congestion
> Collapse.) However, we can't get it stable in the Linux kernel yet. 

No idea why a proxy should be in linux kernel ...

> We believe a scalable MPTCP proxy is of major significance and we're
> contributing everything we build back to the community. -- it's not
> some corporate headhunt stuff. We're honestly just stuck for now and
> didn't know where else to turn but back to the community for some
> help. 
> 
> -Brian

Please do not top post on netdev.

Honestly, you should talk to MPTCP guys.

Octavian Octavian Purdila gave a talk about MPTCP in Ottawa last
February.



--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html