john@wekiwa.uucp (John Carter) (03/20/91)
I am working on an application which will require a Sun workstation to communicate with an external device via UDP. We need to implement some simple means of reliability (hopefully nothing too fancy). If anyone can point me to a publication or even sources, it would be greatly appreciated. Please respond via email, as I have a limited news feed here. Thanks in advance John -- John Carter - Melbourne, Fl. Musta been a barge comin' through! home: john@wekiwa.mlb.fl.us -- Calvin & Hobbes UUCP: uunet!slopoke.mlb.semi.harris.com!wekiwa!john
jordan@tcs.com (Jordan Hayes) (03/22/91)
John Carter <john@wekiwa.uucp> writes:
I am working on an application which will require a Sun
workstation to communicate with an external device via UDP. We
need to implement some simple means of reliability.
If you need reliability, you have selected the wrong protocol. If you
selected ("required"?) UDP for it's "light-weight-edness" then you
missed the point. Rolling your own reliability in user-space will be
more expensive than getting the kernel to deliver your bytes reliably
over TCP.
/jordan