On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 09:30:40AM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> Folks, I've been reading up on a `new' way of handling TCP (which, I'm
> told has Van Jacobsen support) called "Lazy Receive Protocol".  If done
> right it could help solve some pressing problems such as mbuf starvation.
> In 50 words or less, it involves changing TCP to just queue packets by
> the (soft)interrupt handlers and doing all ACK'ing, etc, when a user
> process rungs.

Basically, something like this is (part of) a proposal the BSD
group had for a 4.4BSD, but apparently never implemented. I can't
remember the exact paper title.

Regards,
	Ignatios