Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 00:04:25 -0600 From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop), peter@taronga.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint Message-ID: <199512050604.AAA10808@chrome.jdl.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Dec 1995 17:49:57 PST." <8673.818128197@time.cdrom.com>
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Apparently, "Jordan K. Hubbard" scribbled: > > It would appear that we actually have low-density and high-density cards; > > can we support both, or do we need seperate boot-decks? > > Folks, folks, this is clearly a case where an amalgam of both old and > new technologies is required. Consider the challenges solved by TCP. > Lots of packets arriving potentially out of sequence (or not at all) > reassembled into a coherent data stream. Much like the idea of > multiple cards arriving one at a time into a hopper, yes? Sounds suspiciously like the "I can run TCP over carpet static" argument. > So all we need is to establish sequence numbers for cards, and maybe a > time to live field? Is it too late to get this into IPv6? Depends. Can we get it into columns 72-80? jdl
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