Re: [Netconsole-devel] protocol?

[William R S. <wi...@so...>]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:21:30PM +0100, James Sutherland wrote:
>On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Ferric wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> was a decision regarding which protocol (TCP|UDP) was going to be
>> used taken? if so, has the stack already been written?
>
>UDP, and not yet: still waiting for protocol definition... I'm very busy
>for the next week or two, then hope to do make a start on some code then.

Part IB exams, eh? ;-)  I've got my Part IIs starting Tuesday ... cane ...

May I ask the reasons behind using UDP rather than TCP? Surely we will end up
reimplementing a number of the features offered by TCP such as automatic
retransmission, data integrity, rearrangement of packets that arrive
out-of-order, etcetera.

Will

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