Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!wesommer From: wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William Sommerfeld) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc Subject: Re: A comparison of Commercial RPC Systems Message-ID: Date: 29 Jul 89 19:39:01 GMT References: <6569@joshua.athertn.Atherton.COM> <449d9c67.12879@apollo.COM> <118445@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: /mit/wesommer/.organization Lines: 19 In-reply-to: brent%terra@Sun.COM's message of 28 Jul 89 22:01:05 GMT Brent, Are you claiming that it's acceptable for a protocol to have to be tuned by the user in order to avoid congesting gateways or even to work *at all*? Are you also claiming that it's acceptable for someone writing an application using a remote procedure call package to make packet sizes user-visible? There's no excuse for explicitly using UDP fragmentation. It will get you into trouble. By the way, Brent, please check your facts. SUN RPC does NOT encapsulate multiple request or response packets into a single UDP packet.. NFS merely makes larger single requests if told to do so. - Bill --