Urel, a TCP option for Unreliable Streaming. Need your help.

[Randall Stewart]

Andre Oppermann wrote:
> gnn at freebsd.org wrote:
> 
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>> How is this different from the recently integrated SCTP?
> 
> 
> It doesn't try to retransmit at all. A lost segment is lost and
> resending it would be pointless for realtime content. On the other
> hand you don't want to blast the network at a fixed rate and so
> this protocol wants to use a congestion control algorithm to back
> off when bandwidth gets scarce. I haven't looked at the details
> yet but my initial guess would be that the actual TCP code isn't
> the best starting point. TCP is too obsessed with retransmitting
> if something got lost.
> 

Andre:

Thats true for normal SCTP.. not PR-SCTP.. which is a sender
option. In this case you don't get retransmissions.. or get
a limited number depending on how you set it up :-)

R

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