On Monday, September 12, 2011 05:45:06 PM Nick Hilliard wrote: > I would be interested to hear your opinion on how tcp over multicast would > work.
Of course, straight TCP won't work over multicast. There are other protocols which will meet the suggestions of RFC 3048. > But I agree with your general point that it's a bit much to expect an > application to work where it depends on intercontinental multicast to work > flawlessly and where the upper levels of the application don't even > tolerate out of order packets. "Be liberal in what you expect. Be > conservative in what you send". UDP is simply not the right answer to this problem. Now, there may be ways to shoehorn it into place, but a protocol more suited to the task would be better all around. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
