Urel, a TCP option for Unreliable Streaming. Need your help.

[Ivo Vachkov]

On 12/7/06, Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen at lurchi.franken.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Andre,
>
> see my comments in-line.
>
> Best regards
> Michael
>
>
> SCTP has a extension called PR-SCTP, which is implemented in BSD
> and can be used to limit the number of retransmissions of a
> DATA chunk to 0. The service you mention above is therefore available
> in SCTP.



There is only one problem with that - you need to do a major rewrite of your
current software to use SCTP and hope that all OSs it's supposed to run
on/with have SCTP support (and it's enabled).

-- 
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to
understand the simplicity." Dennis Ritchie