At 4:49 PM +0000 10/2/02, Troy Edington wrote:
>Frame-Relay is a connection-oriented protocol, but is considered unreliable,
>it requires higher layer protocols to make it reliable (TCP)
>
>Connection oriented does not always mean reliable.
>
>Troy Edington, CCIE #7190
And there are connectionless reliable protocols, although some are rare.
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
802.2 LLC Class 3
X.25 Fast Select (you can argue here)
Appletalk Transaction Protocol
These are some that come to mind.
>
> > """"B.J. Wilson"""" wrote in message
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > Dear Silent Bob:
>> >
>> > Okay lunchbox, my co-workers and I are trying to figure out if Frame
>Relay
>> is
>> > connectionless or connection-oriented. A lot of documentation I'm
>reading
>> > says it *is*, but somewhere in the chasms of my memory banks I can't
>help
>> but
>> > think that it is *not*, because a) it would be redundant given TCP's
>> function
>> > and b) it would add latency to the Frame cloud, which is supposedly
>> optimized
>> > for speed (one of the improvements Frame made to X.25). Am I right, or
>> have
>> > I
>> > been hitting the pipe a little too hard lately?
>> >
>> > Your hetero life-mate,
>> >
> > > Jay
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