From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
bgmerrell@novell.com, hirofuchi@users.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, usbip-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: USBIP protocol
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:06:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ej47q5k8.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080829140224.GC1968@parisc-linux.org> (Matthew Wilcox's message of "Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:02:24 -0600")
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> writes:
> I'm in the middle of implementing a userspace client for usbip and I
> strongly feel that the protocol needs to be changed before it is merged.
>
> - I'm unconvinced that TCP is the correct protocol to be running this over.
> I understand the reluctance to use UDP, but the protocol is fundamentally
> packet-based. If TCP is used, the delimitation of packets within the
> stream needs to be much more robust.
If you want reliable transport with record boundaries an alternative
would be also SCTP. Main drawback is that firewalls often don't support it
though (but presumably that wouldn't be a big issue for this)
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-29 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-29 14:02 USBIP protocol Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-29 14:06 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-08-29 22:31 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-08-29 20:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-29 20:51 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-08-29 14:30 ` Greg KH
2008-08-29 14:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-29 14:54 ` Greg KH
2008-08-29 15:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-29 15:53 ` Dave Higton
2008-09-03 4:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-03 15:40 ` Alan Stern
2008-09-03 19:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-03 20:15 ` Alan Stern
2008-09-04 21:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-04 22:15 ` Greg KH
2008-09-05 3:26 ` Pete Zaitcev
2008-09-05 11:37 ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-09-05 15:05 ` Alan Stern
2008-09-09 0:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-09 7:12 ` Steve Calfee
2008-09-09 7:33 ` Greg KH
2008-09-09 8:04 ` Greg KH
2008-09-09 15:21 ` Alan Stern
2008-09-03 15:57 ` Greg KH
2008-09-03 19:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-04 2:41 ` Greg KH
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