• From: Vassilis Papadimos <vpapad@c...>
• To: "Al B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:13:31 -0700

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:57:28AM +0100, Al B. Snell wrote:
> > Are there any reasonable alternatives?
> 
> Sure; UDP. Look at existing RPC protocols and learn from them.

I know about UDP; but for most applications I can think of, we 
want reliable messages, with no restrictions in size, arriving in order.

If you implement these on top of UDP, I think you'll end up 
reinventing TCP, only with more bugs :-)

Regards,

Vassilis.

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