RE: TCP speed

To: "Greg Joyce" <greg@gilhooley.com>
Subject: RE: TCP speed
From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:55:07 -0700
Cc: "Y P Cheng" <ycheng@advansys.com>, <ips@ece.cmu.edu>
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At 12:12 PM 9/11/00 -0500, Greg Joyce wrote:
>Once you build that on top of UDP, you'll have something very TCP-like
>without the benefit of years of tuning and refinement. I think you'd also
>find that the performance was comparable.

the difference will no doubt be that UDP has an optional checksum, while 
TCP requires its checksum to be used. If you have a hardware checksum 
generator, as has been suggested, mox nix.

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