Re: TCP limitations (was Re: ISCSI: Urgent Flag requirement violates TCP.)

["Randall R. Stewart" <randall@stewart.chicago.il.us>]

Stephen Bailey wrote:
> > But the Urgent pointer only helps when you happen to have a sequence
> > hole.  So how in practice can it be worth the effort?
> 
> It will permit a high speed endpoint to deliver full pipe aggregate
> throughput across multiple streams.
> 
And depending on the implementation, it will break in the
the face of multiple losses... sorry I am totaly convinced
it will NOT work as you expect 100% of the time. You need
to find another framing mechanism if you really feel you
need this behavior...



R

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