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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri,  1 Sep 2006 11:14:28 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] linux il/ip
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> I know that's not an argument in favour of il,
> but there ain't anything else is there?

without doing a survey, linux has added three new ip protocols since the beginning of the
year.  dccp, sctp and tipc.  the only one that is smaller than tcp is dccp and it doesn't
provide for retransmission.  (it's intended for streaming content, i believe.)

linux 2.6.17
	proto	ip4 linecount	features
	udp	1594
	tcp	14628

	dccp	8224		congestion controlled, unreliable
	sctp	29139		reliable, mtu-aware, in-order + packet bundling, multipath
	tipc	18175		"transparent" ipc.

oh, for comparison's sake

cpu kernel:
	udp	647
	il	1408
	tcp	3177

- erik