Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 3/23/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: net.dcom,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: IP/Reliable Datagram Protocal for 4.2? Message-ID: <227@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 20:46:42 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.227 Posted: Thu Aug 9 20:46:42 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 06:51:23 EDT References: <345@mddc.UUCP>, <887@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 6 I looked at RDP (RFC908) hoping it was the long awaited reliable datagram protocol, but alas it's something different. This RDP seems aimed at downloading programs, although it is also well suited to transferring digitized images over a network. It has less overhead than TCP, but far more than a datagram protocol. In particular, connection setup/teardown seem to be necessary for RDP.