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From: unobe@cpan.org
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] RUDP and/or others
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 15:36:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5DDAAF728759F5868AD9B01C7820DD15@smtp.pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06F2895C5373B4789EEF42BB2F0B03EF@smtp.pobox.com>

Quoth Romano <unobe@cpan.org>:
> References: <CAOw7k5hWStzajH5PmhEEyh1PFQCwiGZR7YsqB1E0+bkE9XxjRA@mail.gmail.com>
> Subject: RUDP and/or others
> 
> I know this is from a thread almost 8 years old on 9fans.
> 
> I'm ignorant of why RUDP wasn't used in lieu of TCP for 9P
> connections.  Anyone know the whys and wherefores (either technical,
> historical, or political)?  I had read earlier that TCP was used in
> lieu of IL (another transport protocol developed for Plan 9) due to
> performance over long-distance connections.  Did RUDP just not cut it
> in some other way for the needs of sending/receiving 9P messages?
> From the description in ip(3), it seems to have the nice behavior of
> resuming communication when a machine reboots.  Is it due to the
> middle boxes/firewalls that are present in present-day networks?
> 

Apparently a new line snuck in to my headers!


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  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-10 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-10 22:33 [9fans] Romano
2023-05-10 22:36 ` unobe [this message]
2023-05-10 23:51 ` [9fans] Dan Cross
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-10-18 22:43 [9fans] RUDP and/or others Aleksandar Kuktin
2015-10-18 22:48 ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2015-10-19  0:05   ` erik quanstrom
2015-10-18 23:15 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2015-10-18 23:59   ` erik quanstrom
2015-10-19  0:09     ` Kurt H Maier
2015-10-19  0:35       ` erik quanstrom
2015-10-19  0:48         ` Kurt H Maier
2015-10-19  9:28           ` hiro
2015-10-19 20:42             ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2015-10-19 19:36     ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2015-10-19 20:53       ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2015-10-19 19:31   ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2015-10-19 20:57     ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2015-10-19 21:17     ` Charles Forsyth
2015-10-19  9:14 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-10-19 19:29   ` Aleksandar Kuktin

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