Re: Socket/protocol/packet/etc ramblings


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.
> 
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