Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600 | Date | Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:52:20 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > I have toyed a few times about having a simple Ethernet- or UDP-based > > console protocol (TCP is too heavyweight, sorry) where a machine would > > seek out a console server on the network. Anyone has any ideas about > > it? > > Excellent plan: data centre sysadmins the world over will worship your > name if it works...
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.
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