Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 11:54:19 +0200 From: "Ivo Vachkov" <ivo.vachkov@gmail.com> To: "Michael Tuexen" <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urel, a TCP option for Unreliable Streaming. Need your help. Message-ID: <f85d6aa70612070154t112799dewcb9d090164531da2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2786D1DE-E8FA-490C-AFF7-E458E262AEF7@lurchi.franken.de> References: <161d69110612060709n3bf99bd4y47d94b021b8f1d02@mail.gmail.com> <m21wncv66z.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <4577D858.4010300@freebsd.org> <2786D1DE-E8FA-490C-AFF7-E458E262AEF7@lurchi.franken.de>
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On 12/7/06, Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de> wrote: > > Hi Andre, > > see my comments in-line. > > Best regards > Michael > > > SCTP has a extension called PR-SCTP, which is implemented in BSD > and can be used to limit the number of retransmissions of a > DATA chunk to 0. The service you mention above is therefore available > in SCTP. There is only one problem with that - you need to do a major rewrite of your current software to use SCTP and hope that all OSs it's supposed to run on/with have SCTP support (and it's enabled). -- "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." Dennis Ritchie
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