Re: [javagroups-users] TCP and UNICAST

[Bela B. <be...@ya...>]

http://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-12360

Linas Virbalas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Why there is UNICAST protocol defined in the example tcp.xml? As I 
> understood UNICAST is not needed on top of TCP:
>
>     http://www.jgroups.org/newuser/node67.html
>     “Since TCP already offers some of the reliability guarantees that
>     UDP doesn't, some protocols (e.g. FRAG and UNICAST) are not needed
>     on top of TCP.”
>

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Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
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