From owner-freebsd-net Sat May 18 17:49:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9319F37B403 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 17:49:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-209.247.138.189.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.247.138.189] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 179Esi-000496-00; Sat, 18 May 2002 17:49:04 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE6F653.CDE9D2B4@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 17:48:19 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Goodall Cc: Andrew Reilly , Attila Nagy , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ALTQ integration developer preview References: <3CE55A9B.73EA3DE4@mindspring.com> <3CE61675.BCE2A9E1@mindspring.com> <1021717195.1466.4.camel@gurney.reilly.home> <3CE6D592.DCF73743@mindspring.com> <20020519001249.GA24012@roughtrade.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Joshua Goodall wrote: > 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. Was that a "miss" or an "ignore" on the "8-)"? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message