> I know that's not an argument in favour of il,
> but there ain't anything else is there?
without doing a survey, linux has added three new ip protocols since the
beginning of the
year. dccp, sctp and tipc. the only one that is smaller than tcp is dccp and
it doesn't
provide for retransmission. (it's intended for streaming content, i believe.)
linux 2.6.17
proto ip4 linecount features
udp 1594
tcp 14628
dccp 8224 congestion controlled, unreliable
sctp 29139 reliable, mtu-aware, in-order + packet
bundling, multipath
tipc 18175 "transparent" ipc.
oh, for comparison's sake
cpu kernel:
udp 647
il 1408
tcp 3177
- erik
