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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:01
Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:25:10 +0100
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 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.
Could someone give a short yet concrete summary of the techniques
currently employed by IRC?
M. K. Shen
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:01