On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 6:34 PM Romano <un...@cpan.org> wrote:
> References:
> <caow7k5hwstzajh5pmheeyh1pfqcwigzr7ysqb1e0+bke9xx...@mail.gmail.com>
> Subject: RUDP and/or others
>
> I know this is from a thread almost 8 years old on 9fans.
>
> I'm ignorant of why RUDP wasn't used in lieu of TCP for 9P
> connections. Anyone know the whys and wherefores (either technical,
> historical, or political)? I had read earlier that TCP was used in
> lieu of IL (another transport protocol developed for Plan 9) due to
> performance over long-distance connections. Did RUDP just not cut it
> in some other way for the needs of sending/receiving 9P messages?
> From the description in ip(3), it seems to have the nice behavior of
> resuming communication when a machine reboots. Is it due to the
> middle boxes/firewalls that are present in present-day networks?
Probably because it didn't support delivery ordering guarantees. Talk
about a blast from the past, though.
- Dan C.
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