Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:10:58 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600 |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > Sounds like MOP on the old Vaxen. TCP btw isnt as heavyweight as people > sometimes think. You can (and people have) implemented a simple TCP client > and IP and SLIP in 8K of EPROM on a 6502. There is a common misconception > that a TCP must be complex. > > All you actually _have_ to support is receiving frames in order, sending one > frame at a time when the last data is acked and basic backoff. You dont have > to parse tcp options, you dont have to support out of order reassembly. >
This is true, but one thing I'd really like to have is controlled buffer overrun, which TCP *doesn't* have. I really think an ad hoc UDP protocol (I've already begun sketching on the details) is more appropriate in this particular case.
-hpa
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