Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-01,: Re: RDM implementation in Linux

# Re: RDM implementation in Linux

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 8 Jan 2000 17:52:08 +0000 (GMT)

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> We need a reliable datagram protocol on Linux platform. Is RDM or any other
> reliable datagram protocol supported by any version of Linux kernel.
> We tried kernel version 2.2.5-15 but RDM was not implemented in it.

We don't implement any of the experimental relabile datagram protocols for
IP in Linux. For one thing they all degenerate into something looking a lot
like tcp, but with poorer performance as they haven't been tuned for years
to get the protocol fine details right.

Alan

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