Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!sgi!vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Reliable Broadcasts? (was Re: Reliable Datagram ??? Protocols) Summary: maybe XTP Message-ID: <73012@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 23 Oct 90 20:34:58 GMT References: <9010221418.AA03839@ftp.com> Sender: guest@sgi.sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 20 In article , gnb@bby.oz.au (Gregory N. Bond) writes: > .... > Consider a net with a server and many (say, 100) workstations, and a > data feed that goes to each workstation. At the moment, I have to > open 100 TCP streams, and so each packet of data generates 200 TCP > packets, all more-or-less identical. ... I've heard that XTP does this sort of thing now. PEI in the SGI booth at Interop 90 was showing just such an application, sending video from one camera to two screens. It would be nice if the XTP "bucket algorithm" were glommed into TCP, and an RFC written for a TCP option/extension/whatever. I've heard that it would be technically possible. Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com