-----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 9:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: was TightVNC compression vs. SSH compression, now protocol > overheads
> FTP does not run on UDP. I don't think NFS does either. NFS does. The whole design of NFS is to be stateless, so it uses UDP (which is a stateless protocol.) NFS doesn't need the error-checking or connection features of TCP because it implements its own. UDP is also used by streaming protocols like RealPlayer, where you need to send a lot of data in near-realtime and don't care if all of it arrives, since by the time you resent it it would be too late, anyway. I can't see it being a gain for VNC, since VNC *needs* all the data to get there. You'd just end up implementing the same kind of error-checking and connection features TCP does. Why reinvent the wheel? I believe "multicasted" VNC sessions aren't really multicast, they're just multiple point-to-point TCP connections. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
