From owner-freebsd-net Sat May 18 17:13: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from yello.shallow.net (yello.shallow.net [203.18.243.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D3037B403 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 17:12:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by yello.shallow.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 23A5B2A6D; Sun, 19 May 2002 10:12:50 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 10:12:50 +1000 From: Joshua Goodall To: Terry Lambert Cc: Andrew Reilly , Attila Nagy , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ALTQ integration developer preview Message-ID: <20020519001249.GA24012@roughtrade.net> References: <3CE55A9B.73EA3DE4@mindspring.com> <3CE61675.BCE2A9E1@mindspring.com> <1021717195.1466.4.camel@gurney.reilly.home> <3CE6D592.DCF73743@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CE6D592.DCF73743@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 03:28:34PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > No. TCP. RPC over UDP is really a silly idea. If you need > reliable delivery, then don't use a protocol with "unreliable" > as the first word of it's name. 8-). UDP may well be perfectly viable as a RPC transport, but Terry's misinforming statement is not a good justification. UDP is the User Datagram Protocol. Joshua To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message