Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!lll-tis!lll-ati.arpa!narayan From: narayan@lll-ati.arpa (Narayan Moharram) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: More questions about TLI Message-ID: <21846@lll-tis.arpa> Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 17:31:17 EST Article-I.D.: lll-tis.21846 Posted: Fri Nov 20 17:31:17 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 16:03:23 EST References: <8711181601.AA00849@janeb.wisc.edu> Sender: nobody@lll-tis.arpa Reply-To: narayan@lll-ati.arpa (Narayan Moharram) Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA Lines: 15 In article <8711181601.AA00849@janeb.wisc.edu> hagens@CS.WISC.EDU (Robert Hagens) writes: > >Does TLI allow one to take advantage of the message boundaries? ISO session >depends on the message boundaries provided by ISO transport. If it does not, >you may find yourself in trouble when you try to support an OSI stack. > >Rob Hagens >UW Madison Computer Science >ARGO project Yes it does indeed. Each read / t_recv gets you one packet only, if the underlying protocol maintains packet boundaries (For that matter so does the socket interface). However it is the interpretation of urget data in TLI that bugs me.