On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 06:42:28 -0800 (PST) simn_stv <nany...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Feb 26, 10:19 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.web.de> wrote: > > So when you talk about ACKs, you don't mean these on the TCP-level > > (darn, whatever iso-level that is...), but on some higher level? > > i think its on the TCP that he's referring to or is it?...
No, I mean in our own application layer. > if it is, that means he's doing some 'mean' network level scripting, > impressive...but i never thought python could go that deep in network > programming!... What I meant was that we just keep sending packets which TCP/IP keeps in order for us by reassembling out-of-order and retransmitted packets. Asynchronously we sent back to our own application an ACK that our app level packet was finally received. It's a sliding window protocol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_Window_Protocol -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
