That better way turned out to asynchronous update transactions. All we did was keep feeding updates to the remote site and forget about ACKS. We then had a second process which handled ACKS and tracked which packets had been properly transferred. The system had IDs on each update and retries happened if ACKS didn't happen soon enough. Naturally we ignored ACKS that we had already processed.
sounds like using UDP to me, of course with a protocol on top (namely the one you implemented).
Any reason you sticked to TCP instead? Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
