[PATCH 8/9] [DCCP]: Update Documentation

[PATCH 8/9] [DCCP]: Update Documentation

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

This patch just updates DCCP documentation a bit.

Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/dccp.txt |   23 ++++++++---------------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt
index c2328c8..1910d09 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt
@@ -19,21 +19,17 @@ for real time and multimedia traffic.
 
 It has a base protocol and pluggable congestion control IDs (CCIDs).
 
-It is at draft RFC status and the homepage for DCCP as a protocol is at:
-	http://www.icir.org/kohler/dcp/
+It is at experimental RFC status and the homepage for DCCP as a protocol is at:
+	http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/dccp/
 
 Missing features
 ========
 
 The DCCP implementation does not currently have all the features that are in
-the draft RFC.
+the RFC.
 
-In particular the following are missing:
-- CCID2 support
-- feature negotiation
-
-When testing against other implementations it appears that elapsed time
-options are not coded compliant to the specification.
+The known bugs are at:
+	http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/TODO#DCCP
 
 Socket options
 =======
@@ -107,9 +103,6 @@ seq_window = 100
 Notes
 == 
-SELinux does not yet have support for DCCP. You will need to turn it off or
-else you will get EACCES.
-
-DCCP does not travel through NAT successfully at present. This is because
-the checksum covers the psuedo-header as per TCP and UDP. It should be
-relatively trivial to add Linux NAT support for DCCP.
+DCCP does not travel through NAT successfully at present on many boxes. This is
+because the checksum covers the psuedo-header as per TCP and UDP. Linux NAT
+support for DCCP has been added.
-- 
1.4.2.1.g3d5c

Re: [PATCH 8/9] [DCCP]: Update Documentation

[Eddie Kohler]

Hi Arnaldo, Ian,

Actually, DCCP's status is Proposed Standard.  FYI.

Eddie


Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> This patch just updates DCCP documentation a bit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/networking/dccp.txt |   23 ++++++++---------------
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt
> index c2328c8..1910d09 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt
> @@ -19,21 +19,17 @@ for real time and multimedia traffic.
>  
>  It has a base protocol and pluggable congestion control IDs (CCIDs).
>  
> -It is at draft RFC status and the homepage for DCCP as a protocol is at:
> -	http://www.icir.org/kohler/dcp/
> +It is at experimental RFC status and the homepage for DCCP as a protocol is at:
> +	http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/dccp/
>  
>  Missing features
>  ========
>  
>  The DCCP implementation does not currently have all the features that are in
> -the draft RFC.
> +the RFC.
>  
> -In particular the following are missing:
> -- CCID2 support
> -- feature negotiation
> -
> -When testing against other implementations it appears that elapsed time
> -options are not coded compliant to the specification.
> +The known bugs are at:
> +	http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/TODO#DCCP
>  
>  Socket options
>  =======
> @@ -107,9 +103,6 @@ seq_window = 100
>  Notes
>  ==>  
> -SELinux does not yet have support for DCCP. You will need to turn it off or
> -else you will get EACCES.
> -
> -DCCP does not travel through NAT successfully at present. This is because
> -the checksum covers the psuedo-header as per TCP and UDP. It should be
> -relatively trivial to add Linux NAT support for DCCP.
> +DCCP does not travel through NAT successfully at present on many boxes. This is
> +because the checksum covers the psuedo-header as per TCP and UDP. Linux NAT
> +support for DCCP has been added.

Re: [PATCH 8/9] [DCCP]: Update Documentation

[Ian McDonald]

On 11/22/06, Eddie Kohler <kohler@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Hi Arnaldo, Ian,
>
> Actually, DCCP's status is Proposed Standard.  FYI.
>
> Eddie
>
New patch just sent.

Sorry about the delay.

Ian
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