- It's worthwhile to use untimeout(9), even though we must still protect
against "false" timeouts, because most of the time it saves having to
handle a dummy timeout event.
- Slight tweaks to the delayed ACK algorithm paramters.
- Fix slowness when operating over fast connections, where the timeout(9)
granularity is on the same order of magnitude as the round trip time.
timeout(9) can happen up to 1 tick early, which was causing receive
ack timeouts to happen too early, causing bogus "lost" packets.
- Increase the local time counter to 64 bits to avoid roll-over.
- Keep statistics on memory allocation failures.
- Add a new option to always include the ack when sending data packets.
Might be useful in high packet loss situations. Might not.
otherwise, the ng_ether.ko KLD will never be unloadable after
all Ethernet interfaces are detached, as it should be, because
of the lingering extra reference.
Submitted by: "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" <myevmenkin@att.com>
netgraph. Eventually we may need to have a separate hook for packets
that already have a source AMC address but for now just drop it in.
Should fix PPPoE.
instead of bumping the recvAck counter by one, pretend that
all outstanding xmit packets are acknowleged, and restart
transmitting anew, with an empty (but halved) transmit window.
Put a lower bound on the adaptive timeout value.
This means 'options NETGRAPH' is no longer necessary in order to get
netgraph-enabled Ethernet interfaces. This supports loading/unloading
the ng_ether.ko and attaching/detaching the Ethernet interface in any
order.
Add two new hooks 'upper' and 'lower' to allow access to the protocol
demux engine and the raw device, respectively. This enables bridging
to be defined as a netgraph node, if so desired.
Reviewed by: freebsd-net@freebsd.org
world seems to interpret the spec this way
- Initialize transmit window to two instead of one; helps get things
going initially when the first packet may get dropped
- Really fix the shutdown + timeout race condition this time
- Properly handle 32 bit sequence numbers when they wrap around
- Don't drop GRE packets with stale ACK numbers, just ignore the ACK
- Close race between node being shutdown and timer going off
Also add support for lots of statistics, and control message ASCIIfication
(MPPC) and Microsoft Point-to-Point encryption (MPPE) protocols.
Note: the MPPC part is disabled as it requires proprietary files.
Obtained from: Whistle source tree
- Make iface nodes removable on shutdown since FreeBSD now supports
removable interfaces
- Simplify supporting new protocols using family_enqueue(); add a
few new ones including IPv6
- Add support for configurable interface mode using new
NGM_IFACE_POINT2POINT and NGM_IFACE_BROADCAST control messages
- Remove NGM_IFACE_GET_IFADDRS control message; it just duplicates
the functionality of SIOCGIFCONF
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.
