Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:29:56 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: XTP: A better TCP than TCP |
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Jordan Mendelson wrote: > It provides all the features of TCP, plus built-in realiable > multicasts, better speed over networks with packet loss, better speed > overall, maximum bandwidth limiting built-in, and a few other features > which make it noteworthy.
The sites you refer to claim XTP operates better than TCP over unreliable networks because it does selective retransmission whereas TCP does go-back-N.
This is no longer true of TCP -- TCP has SACKs, implemented in Linux for a while now, to do limited selective retransmission.
Reliable multicast sounds interesting though.
-- Jamie
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