On Apr 17, 2006, at 9:37 PM, boblq wrote:
Not necessarily. One may blow off ack/nak and go with forward error correction ... and thus have a whole new thing with some very different attributes and issues.
I wonder, given "typical" network traffic, if you'd actually use more or less bandwidth on a no-retransmissions, forward error correction packet transmission scheme than with TCP's "ACK every packet or ask for a retransmit" scheme.
FECUND (Forward Error Correction User Network Datagram) Protocol, anyone?
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Almost seems appropriate. Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
