On 25/08/05 01:22 -0700, Trevor Warren wrote:
--- Devdas Bhagat devdas@dvb.homelinux.org wrote:
I apologise if I appeared rude, there was no intention to be. The rules above are common protocol design rules, and should be followed.
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Devdas, do remember at times it would be worth building the reliability for UDP since research shows that the reliability of TCP on WAN's can cause deadlocks-delays-inefficiency.
And why would _your_ reliability implementation not face the same issues?
To reach a decision on which protocol to make use of completely depends on the implementation one is
Actually, it depends on the requirement. Implementation is a detail.
looking for. Just taking the basic tenets of TCP-UDP and building from there is a sure disaster....atleast for the implementation we are looking at.
There are tradeoffs to every decision. Feel free to reinvent the wheel :).
Devdas Bhagat