On Sun Mar 05 15:08 2000 +0100, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 05:03:44AM -0500, Chris Calabrese wrote:
> > Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> > > 4. Logging protocols should provide the
> > > capability to retransmit unacknowledged
> > > messages. Therefore also making denial of
> > > service attacks on log senders more
> > > difficult through the generation of
> > > excessive traffic on a particular network
> > > link.
> > >
> > > By choosing TCP as transport medium there are no unacked messages,
> > > either
> > > the connection is lost or all messages went through.
> >
> > True, but since this doc is all about high level requirements,
> > we need this kind of language because we don't want
> > to require TCP (you can meet the requirements with TCP,
> > UDP, ICMP with interesting payloads, bits on a serial
> > line, etc.).
>
> Hmm... and do we want to define an UDP based protocol having this capability?
> or we just state that in environments with this requirement TCP transport
> has to be used. I agree in the second case.
Actually, I think we can define a single protocol which is generalized
to work over TCP or UDP equally well.
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Mark D. Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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