On 2016-09-02, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: > > In theory, the server could react to a TCP disconnect, but that won't > tell it which part of the stream was received and which wasn't, so in > practice, XMPP servers don't even care to check for a TCP disconnect > error in order to detect a possible message loss. > > For SIP, in my experience, if I'm not connected when an SIP message comes > in, the SIP server just drops the message silently. >
You might want to look into a sneakernet by Avian Carrier; not instantaneous by any means, but tremendous throughput can be achieved (latency remains high, however). Waitzman's work on the matter was, as you might be aware, seminal: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 Good luck. > Stefan > > -- "I always say to people, ‘No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million.’ People earn $10 an hour. People earn $40,000 a year. ‘Earn’ means work. Okay? It doesn’t mean steal, which with these vast amounts of money, of course you steal them." — Fran Lebowitz
