Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!bernina!bernina!neeri From: neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: losing appletalk packets (DDP) Message-ID: Date: 30 May 91 11:39:43 GMT References: <1991May29.163624.26494@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH, Zurich Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: roseman@cpsc.ucalgary.ca's message of 29 May 91 16:36:24 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: etzj-gw In article <1991May29.163624.26494@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> roseman@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Mark Roseman) writes: >If I've got a DDP socket open, with one DDPRead call pending, and two or three >packets come in before I can get the data and initiate another DDPRead call, >what happens? Is the extra data lost? (I assume) I don't remember much about DDP, but this usually is the semantics of Datagram protocols. >Any other possible solutions? Another protocol perhaps? For my application >I want to have each socket sending and receiving from several other sockets, >so the connection oriented protocols seem unlikely. As far as I know, ADSP allows you to send and receive from one socket to several others. Another possibility is to use ATP. Matthias ----- Matthias Neeracher neeri@iis.ethz.ch "These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness." -- William Gibson, _Johnny Mnemonic_