mok-kong shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:29:18 +0100
Rich Salz wrote:
>
> >Simply a question from an ignorant: Can TCP do a braodcast?
>
> No.
>
> TCP is end-to-end stream connection. Many people use the word
> reliable, but I don't: If the receiver shuts down the connection
> there is no way for the client to know how much data was received.
Would a service without braodcast be applicable for an IRC context?
M. K. Shen
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