Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!boulder!stan!dancer!imp From: imp@dancer.Solbourne.COM (Warner Losh) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Are sockets the wave of the future? Message-ID: <1990Aug26.065346.13988@Solbourne.COM> Date: 26 Aug 90 06:53:46 GMT References: <9008242107.AA19843@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Aug25.183437.1@rogue.llnl.gov> Sender: news@Solbourne.COM Organization: Solbourne Computers Inc. Lines: 19 In article hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes: >The advantage is that you could move to ISO or anything >else by changing the lower layers, and the application would not be >affected. I get the impression this is the reason they made that >recommendation. The disadvantage is that you can't write programs like FTP or sendmail using the RPC protocol. Not programs that will interoperate with other FTP's and sendmails, at any rate. While RPC is good for some things, it is not the answer to all the networking problems. Sometimes you just gotta write at a fairly low level to interoperate with other programs. Warner -- Warner Losh imp@Solbourne.COM Me? I'm the onion rings.