freebsd stable - Jul 2005 - TCP/IP Cleanup and Optimization - Funraise target reached - one request remaining

First I want to thank everyone for their great support and numerous donations
to the TCP/IP Cleanup and Optimization[1]!  The full funding target has been
reached today.  I want thank especially the many individuals who have
contributed
a significant amount of money alone.  And of course the corporate sponsors which
have shouldered about two thirds of the sum: Pair.net, Solnet.ch, Bytemark.co.uk
and BNC.ch.  Any money that still comes in goes to an time extension of up to
one week.


However there is one thing I'm in desperate need of: a precise traffic
generator.
If you know someone who can lend me a Smartbits, Ixia or Agilent engine
(doesn't
have to be the newest) for about three month I'm all ears.  For the routing
work
I need to measure the exact pps rates and latency distribution to carve out any
bottlenecks after the new code is in the tree.  Just remote access to the
traffic
engine or a PC/FreeBSD based traffic generator is not good enough for this
purpose
because it lacks precise enough time stamping and I have to run very
instrumented
kernels.  Alternatively if you can arrange for a super-special deal on such a
traffic
engine (used or new) I may be able to buy that through my company and write it
off
as investment (CAPEX) if the amount is not too high.  It would then be available
for all FreeBSD related work.


My work on the TCP/IP Cleanup and Optimization will start in the week of August
8th.
The next week I'm out of the office and have only spotty email access but I
do my
best to reply as fast as possible to any direct emails I get.

In [1] you can see the list of the donors and all the tasks I will perform
during
the funded period.

[1] http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/tcpoptimization.html

-- 
Andre

Replying to self:

Of course it's a funraise too, but the Subject should actually be
"Fundraise
target reached".

Meaningful typo this time... ;)

-- 
Andre

Andre Oppermann wrote:
> First I want to thank everyone for their great support and numerous 
> donations
> to the TCP/IP Cleanup and Optimization[1]!  The full funding target 
> has been
> reached today.  I want thank especially the many individuals who have 
> contributed
> a significant amount of money alone.  And of course the corporate 
> sponsors which
> have shouldered about two thirds of the sum: Pair.net, Solnet.ch, 
> Bytemark.co.uk
> and BNC.ch.  Any money that still comes in goes to an time extension 
> of up to
> one week.
When will these be merged into the code tree?  I'm assuming that the work
will go into 6.* and not be backported to 5-Stable.  (Could it be?)

John

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