In a recent note, Ted MacNEIL said: > Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT > > SNA does everything it can to make sure that any data traversing the network > is r > eceived by the desired recipient. > The philosphy is, if you send data, somebody wants to receive it. > TCP/IP will drop packets if the recipient isn't ready for it. > The philosphy is, "oh, well". > Accidents happen. At the IP layer, yes, packets can be dropped. The TCP layer provides integrity via error recovery. I'd be astonished to learn that no similar structure exists within SNA. Are you maintaining that SNA contains no error recovery, because errors never happen?
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