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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:59
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Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:34:19 +1000 (EST)
> >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.
> /r$
This is more of an API issue. There is no reason one couldn't hand
over the last highest received ack to the caller (this is what I
do in sudp). Of course this doesn't mean that the application at
the other end has actually read this data - just the stack. The
more I look at this issue the more I believe the berkeley approach
is correct, and that application data should be ack'd by the
application at application level message boundaries.
Cheers,
Julian.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:59