[vfer-users] VFER 0.98 Released

[Ivan B. <iv...@cs...>]

Hello everybody,

VFER 0.98 was released last week. The new release focuses on integrating 
code from students as part of the Google's summer of code program. It 
includes code from Nikoluas Rath who has worked on connection 
authentication using existing SSH keys and encryption, the new VSL layer 
(VFER sucre layer) specifications may be found online under the doxygen 
docs repository ( http://vfer.sourceforge.net/files/doxygen/html/vsl.html 
and http://vfer.sourceforge.net/files/doxygen/html/vsl__api_8h.html ). 
Also included in this release is code by Andrew Lake 
implementing the new path MTU discovery algorithm (RFC draft- 
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pmtud-method-06.txt ). The 
path mtu discovery algorithm necessitated that the vector ack packet be changed 
to a packet carrying missing data ranges rather than a nack of received 
fragments. The new information is now payloaded on the CC ACK packets or 
just ACK packets. Also in this release are new tools that use the VSL 
layer, particularly a file transfer client which establishes an 
authetnication connection using existing SSH keys. This release also has a 
slightly changed delay based congestion control which we found to be more 
responsive to queueing delay than the algorithm which used base min - 
current min relative queueing delay. The release is still somewhat buggy 
and bug reports and general testing would be much appreciated.

thanks,
ivan.