Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600

Tim Wright
2001-02-13T00:18:37Z

Yup,
those who fail to learn from TCP are doomed to re-invent it, badly, at the
wrong level <GRIN>.
Seriously, the console subsystem on the Sequent (now IBM) NUMA-Q systems
originally used UDP. It wound up as a serious mess. We changed to TCP.
I'll admit that the NUMA-Q console subsystem does more than what is being
proposed here currently, but it's likely to grow.
In general UDP is only appropriate if you *can* afford to drop data.
Did RDP ever get anywhere ?

Regards,

Tim

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 12:11:01AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I'm sure you can. That doesn't mean it's the right solution.
>
> And the UDP proposal will be at least as big if it does retransmits, and if
> it doesnt , its junk. It will also need as much buffering, if not the same
> packing trick
>
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