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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue,  4 May 2010 14:50:51 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Distributed Pipelines
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> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:16 AM, erik quanstrom
> <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
>
> > i believe that it is tcp that doesn't preserve record boundaries, not
> > ip.
>
> Let me rephrase. My understanding is  that tcp on v6 preserves record
> boundaries. Is that wrong?

perhaps you mean sctcp?  i don't see any differences in
processing in /sys/src/9/ip/tcp.c that depend on ip4/ip6.

here's wiki's take on the matter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol
(scroll down to the table)

- erik