[NUT-devel] Info packets in NUT stream (spec bugs?)

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Sun Nov 5 17:56:45 CET 2006


On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 09:48:46AM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> > also nut is no network protocol, i have my doubts it will be used raw 
> > in such a streaming case ...
> 
> It could, there's no real reason you can't just TCP NUT over some simple 
> protocol. Oh no, I'm turning into Ivan :)

Indeed, TCP is the _sane_ method for streaming. All these fancy
protocols are for the stupid case where you're saturating the network.
If there's any chance that the recipient wants to record the stream,
it needs reliable delivery anyway and should just be using TCP.

Rich




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