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Date:      Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:30:54 -0400
From:      Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TCP over UDP
Message-ID:  <4C3B7B7E.50A905AC@verizon.net>
References:  <4C386208.291D2FB5@verizon.net> <20100712202925.00002273@unknown>

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Bruce Cran wrote:
> 
> 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

Thanks, it does look like it!

-SB



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