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From: karl@asylum.SF.CA.US (Karl Auerbach)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Reliability of TCP/IP
Message-ID: <3582@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 26 Aug 89 19:13:48 GMT
References: <294@can503.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@asylum.UUCP (Karl Auerbach)
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Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA
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In article <294@can503.UUCP> story@avcocan (Robert Story) writes:
>
>We are thinking of implementing TCP/IP and one my co-workers says that he
>has heard that TCP/IP is not reliable for file transfers.  Comments?

TCP *is* reliable.  The chances of bad data are extremely small.  (No
prototol can guarantee perfect reliability -- not SNA, not OSI.)

This brings to mind another bit of mis-information:  Seems that down
in Los Angeles some IBM-oriented MIS group was saying, in a knowing
authoritative voice, that Ethernet should not be used to carry
financial information because it has collisions and drops digits.  And
since token rings don't have collisions, they don't lose digits and
are thus much better for moving critical data!

			--karl--