Phillip Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > UDP is highly appropriate because the congestion controls and other > features of TCP are not required for this type of data, and in fact, > tend to muck things up. That is why the application needs to implement > its own congestion, sequencing, retransmit and connect/disconnect > controls; because the way TCP handles them is not good for this > application.
Congestion control is always appropriate in a shared network. Please note that congestion control does not conflict with the objectives of UDP. For UDP, congestion control can simply mean dropping packets at the source. DCCP is a good replacement for UDP that has congestion control. In general it's much better to much better to drop packets at the source rather than half-way through. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
