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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