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From: jordan@tcs.com (Jordan Hayes)
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Subject: Re: Reliable UDP transport
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Date: 21 Mar 91 18:20:14 GMT
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John Carter <john@wekiwa.uucp> writes:

	I am working on an application which will require a Sun
	workstation to communicate with an external device via UDP.  We
	need to implement some simple means of reliability.

If you need reliability, you have selected the wrong protocol.  If you
selected ("required"?) UDP for it's "light-weight-edness" then you
missed the point.  Rolling your own reliability in user-space will be
more expensive than getting the kernel to deliver your bytes reliably
over TCP.

/jordan