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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:01
Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:34:32 +1200
On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 06:34:30PM +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
> Simply a question from an ignorant: Can TCP do a braodcast?
Nope.
If you want funky multicast stream stuff (al la multicast news) you
have to implement your own stack using UDP or some other kind of
datagram and each receiver has to keep track of drop-outs whatever
and send re-requests to the sender.
This means you can't really use a window for a large `stream' of data
if all the senders receive at different rates because the head and
tail of the window will diverge quickly...
Its much better to design a protocol not to expect streaming data.
-cw
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:01