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SubjectRe: XTP: A better TCP than TCP
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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