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

[Michael Tuexen]

On Dec 7, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Ivo Vachkov wrote:

> 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
Porting an application from TCP or UDP should be relative simple.  
Porting
a TCP based application to SCTP using the 1-to-1 style socket API is
straight forward.
> on/with have SCTP support (and it's enabled).
I would guess that more systems support SCTP than the modified version
of TCP.
>
> -- 
> "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a  
> genius to
> understand the simplicity." Dennis Ritchie
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