Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 15:30:43 +0100 From: Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de> To: "Ivo Vachkov" <ivo.vachkov@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urel, a TCP option for Unreliable Streaming. Need your help. Message-ID: <200C0D98-210B-438E-9B8C-5F728CD91439@lurchi.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <f85d6aa70612070154t112799dewcb9d090164531da2@mail.gmail.com> References: <161d69110612060709n3bf99bd4y47d94b021b8f1d02@mail.gmail.com> <m21wncv66z.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <4577D858.4010300@freebsd.org> <2786D1DE-E8FA-490C-AFF7-E458E262AEF7@lurchi.franken.de> <f85d6aa70612070154t112799dewcb9d090164531da2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Dec 7, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Ivo Vachkov wrote: > On 12/7/06, Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de> wrote: >> >> Hi Andre, >> >> see my comments in-line. >> >> Best regards >> Michael >> >> >> SCTP has a extension called PR-SCTP, which is implemented in BSD >> and can be used to limit the number of retransmissions of a >> DATA chunk to 0. The service you mention above is therefore available >> in SCTP. > > > > There is only one problem with that - you need to do a major > rewrite of your > current software to use SCTP and hope that all OSs it's supposed to > run Porting an application from TCP or UDP should be relative simple. Porting a TCP based application to SCTP using the 1-to-1 style socket API is straight forward. > on/with have SCTP support (and it's enabled). I would guess that more systems support SCTP than the modified version of TCP. > > -- > "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a > genius to > understand the simplicity." Dennis Ritchie > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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