Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!bbn.com!papaya.bbn.com!rsalz From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Reliable Broadcasts? (was Re: Reliable Datagram ??? Protocols) Message-ID: <2939@litchi.bbn.com> Date: 24 Oct 90 19:31:06 GMT References: <9010221418.AA03839@ftp.com> Organization: BBN Systems and Technology, Inc. Lines: 17 In 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. What would be nice would be to |broadcast the packet to the local net, and have the clients request |missed packets, thus implementing a sort of reliable broadcast. I believe this is what the ISIS distributed programming environment provides. Write to ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu for more info, or read the Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.isis. /rich $alz -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net. Use a domain-based address or give alternate paths, or you may lose out.