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From: Artem Letko <aletko@gma...>
Subject: linux il/ip
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:56:11 -0400
On 9/26/06, erik quanstrom <quanstro@qua...> wrote:
> 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.
>
not true again: mtu discovery is a standard practice. is traceroute a
cruft? than mtu discovery is too.
> il in plan 9 is ~1kloc. so i think my parody is still apt.
>
> - erik
>
-art