Joshua Goodall wrote: > On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 05:48:19PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Joshua Goodall wrote: > > > On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 03:28:34PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > No. TCP. RPC over UDP is really a silly idea. If you need > > > > reliable delivery, then don't use a protocol with "unreliable" > > > > as the first word of it's name. 8-). > > > > > > UDP may well be perfectly viable as a RPC transport, but Terry's > > > misinforming statement is not a good justification. > > > > > > UDP is the User Datagram Protocol. > > > > Was that a "miss" or an "ignore" on the "8-)"? > > Definitely an ignore. An incorrect statement remains incorrect no > matter how many irrelevant smilies are appended in a feeble attempt > at irony. Particularly when it reverses the sense of the preceeding > statement.
UDP is still a bad bet for reliable request response. It's really dumb to effectively reimplement TCP without windows on top of UDP just to avoid using TCP. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
