In some mail from Bennett Todd, sie said: > > 2003-01-15T04:38:01 Rainer Gerhards: > > Honestly, I do not like to call it reliable as it is not fully > > reliable. > > How so? TCP is reliable, no? > > > RFC3195 is. > > I'd expect RFC 3195 to be less reliable, until and unless we get a > simple and robust implementation of the appropriate subset of BEEP; > at least from what I've read on these lists, implementors looking > for BEEP libs are not always pleased with their choices. > > > But SELP/SLP/RLP ;) is a simplex protocol, without any > > acknowledgment from the receiver (except for the TCP > > acknowledgment). > > That TCP ack seems to me to be all that's needed. And how does an application get notified of this event ? TCP guarantees in-order delivery of a stream of bytes from one socket to another but does not tell you what data got lost when the stream was being shut down. You need a layer 5 for that :) Darren _______________________________________________ LogAnalysis mailing list LogAnalysisat_private http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/loganalysis
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Wed Jan 15 2003 - 07:34:35 PST