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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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