Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Shyamal Prasad wrote: Russell Surely someone must have written something similar to TCP Russell but implemented on top of UDP. Too many people have tried this ;-) Try SCTP, a recent attempt to deal with the reliable UDP solution: The 2.5.50 kernel has a SCTP implementation. Dunno how

reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-29 Thread Russell Coker
Do we have a library in Debian that provides reliable stream based communication over UDP? I want to be able to deal with asymetric links and end-points that change IP address so TCP won't work. Surely someone must have written something similar to TCP but implemented on top of UDP. Is such

Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-29 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:16:20PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: Do we have a library in Debian that provides reliable stream based communication over UDP? I want to be able to deal with asymetric links and end-points that change IP address so TCP won't work. Surely someone must have

Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-29 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:16:20PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: Do we have a library in Debian that provides reliable stream based communication over UDP? I want to be able to deal with asymetric links and end-points that change IP address so TCP won't work. Why would TCP have

Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 17:48, Tommi Virtanen wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:16:20PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: Do we have a library in Debian that provides reliable stream based communication over UDP? I want to be able to deal with asymetric links and end-points that change IP address

Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-29 Thread Sam Hartman
Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell Do we have a library in Debian that provides reliable Russell stream based communication over UDP? librx from openafs provides this functionality; it may be somewhat more complexity than you are looking for.

Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Sam Hartman wrote: Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell Do we have a library in Debian that provides reliable Russell stream based communication over UDP? librx from openafs provides this functionality; it may be somewhat more

Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-29 Thread Brian May
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:16:20PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: Do we have a library in Debian that provides reliable stream based communication over UDP? I want to be able to deal with asymetric links and end-points that change IP address so TCP won't work. Surely someone must have

Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-29 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:16:20 +0100 Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we have a library in Debian that provides reliable stream based communication over UDP? I want to be able to deal with asymetric links and end-points that change IP address so TCP won't work. Surely someone must

Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell I want to be able to deal with asymetric links and Russell end-points that change IP address so TCP won't work. TCP works well with asymmetric data flows. I think you should consider this carefully before dropping TCP for