Subject: Re: Socket/protocol/packet/etc ramblings
From: Steve Brown (delancie@majik.netti.fi)
Date: Wed Sep 01 1999 - 17:50:25 EEST
I've not been following too closely on this one, but given that I'm assuming it would be 'our' protocol, there's no reason why a module couldn't be written (for Linux masq at least) in the same way quake, irc and realaudio have... Just a thought anyway... On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Jari P Saukkonen wrote: > 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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