Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600 | Date | Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:50:04 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> It's not a huge undertaking, I know, but UDP will probably still be > a bit simpler. Turn the question around: would using TCP bring any real > benefits, in a system which will only be used to shift a few kb each boot > time?
Im not convinced it will be any smaller by the time your UDP code has dealt with retransmits, out of order acks, and backoff.
> for the kernel-side code: once you have a fully-fledged IP stack, why not > use it. There's no reason the server couldn't support both, and machines > would just use whichever was more appropriate at the time.
The IP layer is easy. Thats about 30 lines of code for a minimal IP. You'll need more code to implement ARP, which you will require
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