Posts in 2020
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Exploring Ouroboros with wireshark
Saturday, December 19, 2020 in News
I recently did some quick tests with the new congestion avoidance implementation, and thought to myself that it was a shame that Wireshark could not identify the Ouroboros flows, as that could give me some nicer graphs. Just to be clear, I think …
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Congestion avoidance
Saturday, December 12, 2020 in News
The upcoming 0.18 version of the prototype has a bunch of big additions coming in, but the one that I’m most excited about is the addition of congestion avoidance. Now that the implementation is reaching its final shape, I just couldn’t …
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Flow and Retransmission Control Protocol (FRCP)
Saturday, May 02, 2020 in News
With the longer weekend I had some fun implementing (parts of) the Flow and Retransmission Control Protocol (FRCP) to the point that it’s stable enough to bring you a very quick demo of it. FRCP is the Ouroboros alternative to TCP / QUIC / LLC. …
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Equal-Cost multipath (ECMP) example
Sunday, February 16, 2020 in News
As promised, I added equal cost multipath routing to the Ouroboros unicast IPCP. I will add some more explanations later when it’s fully tested and merge into the master branch, but you can already try it. You will need to pull the be branch. …
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Adding Equal-Cost multipath (ECMP)
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 in News
Some recent news – Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) implementation is landing in mainstream Linux kernel 5.6 – finally got me to integrate the equal-cost multipath (ECMP) implementation from Nick Aerts’s master thesis into Ouroboros. And …
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Getting back to work
Thursday, January 16, 2020 in News
Yesterday there was a bit of an unexpected spike in interest in Ouroboros following a post on HN. I’m really humbled by the response and grateful to all the people that show genuine interest in this project. I fully understand that people would …