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Re: Hurdish TCP stack


From: olafBuddenhagen
Subject: Re: Hurdish TCP stack
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:27:21 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14)

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:43:25PM -0600, Joshua Stratton wrote:

> LP is a special protocol written by the Plan9 team that is something
> in between TCP and UPD.  They wanted a reliable stream but as fast as
> UDP and a few other benefits.  They said  TCP was too slow.

Interesting. I wonder whether there is really no standard protocol that
fulfills these requirements...

> I'm not sure if it's justified, and I wasn't planning on implementing
> it.  I could since according to them it's about half the code length
> as the TCP protocol and a lot simpler.

Well, I certainly wouldn't make it part of the project -- I think there
is enough work on more important protocols to be done :-)

-antrik-




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