From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 19:49:16 +0200 From: David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <20120511194916.50ee96d4@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20120511183117.7b9a65a9@wks-ddc.exosec.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] IL depreciated Topicbox-Message-UUID: 892ac9b6-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Does it offer the advantages claimed over TCP? Do you think it is > even possible to run it over the internet anymore given the amount of > filtering and such that is going on at the ISP level now? I think the main advantage of IL over TCP is its simplicity. However, I wouldn't recommend using it beyond fun or historical interest. Unless of course if you are using the old file server. I used IL over Internet few years ago and, as far as I recall, it worked fine. My ISP doesn't do any sort of protocol filtering. The most common issue you are likely to encounter is when you have to pass through a NAT. NAT implementations don't usually understand the IL protocol and thus doesn't know how to translate the ports and recalculate the checksum. -- David du Colombier