A Conversation with Van Jacobson

To those with even a passing interest in the history of the Internet and TCP/IP networking, Van Jacobson will be a familiar name. During his 25 years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and subsequent leadership positions at Cisco Systems and Packet Design, Jacobson has helped invent and develop some of the key technologies on which the Internet is based. He is most well known for his pioneering contributions to the TCP/IP networking stack, his seminal work on alleviating congestion on the Internet, his leadership in developing the MBone (multicast backbone), and his development of several widely used IP networking tools, such as trace-route, pathchar, and tcpdump.