From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 14:31:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DAFE16A415 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:31:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de) Received: from ilsa.franken.de (mail-n.franken.de [193.175.24.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2562E43CCA for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:30:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de) Received: from [192.168.1.15] (p508FDDC2.dip.t-dialin.net [80.143.221.194]) by ilsa.franken.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33DFD245ED; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 15:30:56 +0100 (CET) (KNF account authenticated via SMTP-AUTH) In-Reply-To: References: <161d69110612060709n3bf99bd4y47d94b021b8f1d02@mail.gmail.com> <4577D858.4010300@freebsd.org> <2786D1DE-E8FA-490C-AFF7-E458E262AEF7@lurchi.franken.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <200C0D98-210B-438E-9B8C-5F728CD91439@lurchi.franken.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael Tuexen Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 15:30:43 +0100 To: "Ivo Vachkov" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urel, a TCP option for Unreliable Streaming. Need your help. X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:31:39 -0000 On Dec 7, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Ivo Vachkov wrote: > On 12/7/06, Michael Tuexen 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" >