Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:29:25 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP over UDP Message-ID: <20100712202925.00002273@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4C386208.291D2FB5@verizon.net> References: <4C386208.291D2FB5@verizon.net>
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On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:05:29 -0400 Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net> wrote: > Basically, every time you use UDP, you've got to reinvent your > own retransmission and reliability protocol. And these protocols > are typically no good at all, as the story with NFS switching > from UDP to TCP and improving the performance shows. At the same > time TCP provides a very good transport control logic, so why not > just reuse this logic in a library to solve the UDP issues once > and for all? Have you looked at SCTP? It may provide the features you've looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol#Motivations -- Bruce Cran
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