Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:25:59 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600 |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > I'm sure you can. That doesn't mean it's the right solution. > > And the UDP proposal will be at least as big if it does retransmits, and if > it doesnt , its junk. It will also need as much buffering, if not the same > packing trick >
Within limits, you're right, of course. I suspect it won't be *as* big (especially not if it's talking to a PXE card which does the IP and UDP layers in firmware, but not TCP), but I still suspect better tradeoffs can be made this way.
That being said, I'll look at TCP as well.
-hpa
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