On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:34 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:

> >  Wasn't IL somewhat abandoned because to make it as good as TCP you
> > basically had to implement TCP anyway?
>
> due to a failure of vision, the internet only does
> well with certain types of ip packets.
>
> il is still an excellent protocol for local networks.
>
> > 9P doesn't require any flow control?  That doesn't seem right :-)  But
> then
>
> 9p, like aoe, is a ping-pong protocol.  each message requires an ack.
> therefore, the transport layer doesn't need flow control.
>
> Right, but when you have one T message for many R messages, doesn't that
change things a bit?


> - erik
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