[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Foundation Project Announcement

Dear FreeBSD Community, The FreeBSD Foundation is very pleased to announce the next in a series of developer grants. This grant has been awarded to Lawrence Stewart and Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA, http://caia.swin.edu.au) for improvements to the FreeBSD TCP stack. This three-part project will include implementing Appropriate Byte Counting (ABC) RFC3465 support, adapting and merging CAIA's Statistical Information for TCP Research (SIFTR) TCP analysis tool into FreeBSD, and making improvements to the TCP reassembly queue. "These changes target both improved performance and improved quality of the FreeBSD TCP stack through feature enhancements and integrated testing," said Professor Grenville Armitage, CAIA's Director. He also added, "We use FreeBSD daily in our IP networking research testbeds and for our centre's various servers, so we're looking forward to contributing these TCP improvements to the FreeBSD community." "Supporting the technology transfer of advanced systems research, such as CAIA's work on the FreeBSD network stack, is a critically important role for The FreeBSD Foundation to play," said Robert Watson, president of The FreeBSD Foundation. The project will be completed by July 2009. Sincerely, The FreeBSD Foundation