UDP Lite support

[Xin Li]

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On 02/26/14 18:52, Joe Nosay wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:36:29PM -0500, Joe Nosay wrote:
>>> The last thread on this was in 2006. Has it ever been
>>> reconsidered or is the likelihood of too many damaged packets
>>> the reason for not supporting? I'm not sure where to put this
>>> question. Apologies for the noise.
>> 
>> You've provided next to no context.  What is the question?  What
>> thread are you referring to?  If this is the usual UDP then
>> freebsd-net would be vastly more appropriate than -current.
>> 
>> -- Brooks
>> 
> Thanks. I will ask kevlo and maybe bring it up on freebsd-net. It
> has to do with an implementation of the JACK server using UDP Lite
> for transferring data.
> 
> http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/UDP-lite-for-FreeBSD-td4010236.html

Looks
> 
like nobody proposed a patch?

I think the concern was that this is not very useful in real-world
scenarios due to link layer error detection mechanism but that doesn't
raise a red flag to me assuming this is sufficiently self contained
feature as it would improve compatibility with other operating systems.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>    https://www.delphij.net/
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