Subject: Re: Socket/protocol/packet/etc ramblings
From: Jari P Saukkonen (jsaukkon@cs.Helsinki.FI)
Date: Wed Sep 01 1999 - 17:34:57 EEST
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Tommi Leino wrote: > But can UDP survive through masquerading firewalls? And it is not > so rare to block all UDP ports anyways... Otherwise this would > indeed work. We can make a small protocol abstraction layer (PAL ;) that can use either TCP or UDP and let the user select the protocol. Then the networking code doesn't need to care about protocols, we can use the same approach with both protocols. TCP just has more overhead in the protocol-level. --- | Jari Saukkonen + jari.saukkonen@cs.helsinki.fi : coral -. | programming music graphics | dolphin : | art keyboards web | nah-kolor | +------------------------------------------------+-----------' | Babylon5-inspired 'shadow function' 0 <= t <= 4*pi/3 : x(t) = (sin 8t)^2 * (5 + 3sin 8t) cos (t/2 + (sin 8t)^2) . y(t) = +-(sin 8t)^2 * (5 + 3cos 8t) sin (t/2 + (sin 8t)^2)
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