[Netconsole-devel] Few thoughts while browsing archives...

[Pavel M. <pa...@uc...>]

Hi!

>UDP datagram, and would make it very easy to map native console
>operations -- how weird they may be -- onto the virtual screen.  The
>downside is that it makes server-side logging and scrollback harder.
>
>Thoughts on this subject?

Yes. You just lost ability to count number of messages. You can't say
if 50 or 500 same messages come.

That might not be showstopper, however.

>Once again, it will not handle interrupted connections (server
>reboots,
>buffer overruns) correctly -- in fact, it would have disastrous
>effects.
>Saying you can have a small TCP implementation is not good enough --
>the
>OS on the server will implement TCP, not the small TCP derivative
>capable
>of handling interrupted connections.  This is reason for not using
>TCP.
>That something looks a lot like TCP doesn't mean TCP is the right
>answer.

What is problem with client doing reconnects? It is easy. If you get
reset, you reconnect.
								Pavel
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