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   Message 13,909 of 14,669   
   Jorgen Grahn to Rick Jones   
   Re: Linux: stopping TCP i/o in progress    
   08 Nov 12 23:23:11   
   
   From: grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se   
      
   On Thu, 2012-11-08, Rick Jones wrote:   
   > Mark Hounschell  wrote:   
   ...   
   >> Performance is not as critical as emulation accuracy.   
   >   
   > I do not really want to open another can of worms for you, but   
   > depending on the nature of that which you are looking to emulate, you   
   > should probably also know that strictly speaking, TCP is not a   
   > "reliable transport" in that it does not guarantee delivery.   
      
   To open a third can of worms: are we sure he means to use TCP?  He   
   mentioned it once (as "Ethernet/TCP"), but from the rest of his   
   postings he seem to think mostly in terms of Ethernet and a little   
   about IP (he touched on the subject of IP fragmentation).   
      
   /Jorgen   
      
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