Re[2]: LL ARQ on LD links [was: PILC: prioritization]

From: Steve Deering (deering@cisco.com)
Date: Wed Jan 27 1999 - 18:28:53 EST

At 1:41 PM -0800 1/27/99, adfalk@mail.hac.com wrote:
> It seems that a reliable link protocol would benefit by knowing if
> there is TCP or UDP in the packet and, if UDP, if late is as good as
> missing.

No, with UDP you can't assume anything about the timeliness requirements.
Yes, most "real-time" applications are implemented over UDP, but so are
many non-real-time applications, e.g., multicast file transfer.

Steve

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