Quoth Romano <un...@cpan.org>: > References: > <caow7k5hwstzajh5pmheeyh1pfqcwigzr7ysqb1e0+bke9xx...@mail.gmail.com> > Subject: RUDP and/or others > > I know this is from a thread almost 8 years old on 9fans. > > I'm ignorant of why RUDP wasn't used in lieu of TCP for 9P > connections. Anyone know the whys and wherefores (either technical, > historical, or political)? I had read earlier that TCP was used in > lieu of IL (another transport protocol developed for Plan 9) due to > performance over long-distance connections. Did RUDP just not cut it > in some other way for the needs of sending/receiving 9P messages? > From the description in ip(3), it seems to have the nice behavior of > resuming communication when a machine reboots. Is it due to the > middle boxes/firewalls that are present in present-day networks? >
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