Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:23:04 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600 |
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Tim Wright wrote: > > Yup, > those who fail to learn from TCP are doomed to re-invent it, badly, at the > wrong level <GRIN>. > Seriously, the console subsystem on the Sequent (now IBM) NUMA-Q systems > originally used UDP. It wound up as a serious mess. We changed to TCP. > I'll admit that the NUMA-Q console subsystem does more than what is being > proposed here currently, but it's likely to grow. > In general UDP is only appropriate if you *can* afford to drop data. > Did RDP ever get anywhere ? >
That's the whole crux of the matter. For something like this, you *will* drop data under certain circumstances. I suspect it's better to have this done in a controlled manner, rather than stop completely, which is what TCP would do.
-hpa
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