--On Saturday, July 19, 2003 13:37:04 -0400 Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> wrote: > It is essential that TCP connections be able to survive link failures. > If you don't have this, you basically have to re-implement much of TCP at > a higher layer. (Typically, explicit acks for application data, the > ability to detect a lack of acknowledgment and to retransmit > unacknowledged application data, and to gracefully handle duplicate > transmissions of application data.) I agree -- this is important, and if altered would break lots of things. -- Måns Nilsson Systems Specialist +46 70 681 7204 KTHNOC MN1334-RIPE We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead.
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