Alex- Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 5:17:54 PM, you wrote:
AT> There are a few other circumstances where you might want to choose UDP AT> rather than TCP, apart from the speed and low overhead cases. Thanks. I wasn't aware that VOIP used UDP. AT> (And unfortunately, Rev doesn't support either multicast or PGM). AT> (Actually, I think Rev doesn't fully handle broadcast - I can get it to AT> send to a local-broadcast address and they are received by other devices AT> - but I can't get Rev to receive them ... will experiment some more with AT> that later) This explains a lot. I had tried multicasting and decided there was some problem with the network configuration. Tell me about PGM - preferably off-list, since this is starting to get very OT, but I'm posting the request here in case there's other interest. AT> 4. Low frequency (or very low frequency) packet exchange. I think I'd still set up a tcp handler for this. In fact, I have. I've worked with remote data collection devices that would send a few packets every hour or so and we've used tcp for the connection. Of course, in that case data loss was very important. AT> In general, my advice would be - always use TCP except when you can't. Agreed. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
