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From: craig@bbn.com (Craig Partridge)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Reliable Datagram ??? Protocols
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Date: 25 Oct 90 13:14:04 GMT
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In article <12632159446.18.BILLW@mathom.cisco.com> BILLW@MATHOM.CISCO.COM (William "Chops" Westfield) writes:
>
>Aesthetically, though, it bothers me to have to do the extra work of
>converting datagrams to streams and back when the underlying transmission
>scheme is almost certainly datagram based.  (Hmm, is anyone running TCP
>over anything other than IP?)

Well, if you really wanna talk esthetics, I'm sure that somewhere in the
world, someone is running the cisco X.25 over TCP, over an IP, which at
some point in the path gets sent over an X.25 channel....

Craig