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Re: New draft possibilities





On Monday, August 29, 2005 23:41:48 -0700 Frank Cusack <fcusack%fcusack.com@localhost> wrote:

On August 30, 2005 5:46:50 PM +1200 Peter Gutmann
<pgut001%cs.auckland.ac.nz@localhost> wrote:
Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz%cmu.edu@localhost> writes:

I think you might be answering the wrong question. The proposal wasn't
SSH- over-UDP; it was UDP port forwarding. That does seem like it could
be useful.

Ah, UDP on the inside, not the outside.  Right, that could be useful...

A TCP tunnel would change the characteristics of most UDP apps quite
significantly and would not be desirable, I'd think.

retries within retries ...

Perhaps, but especially when the network is fairly reliable, it would be better than an app you can't use at all because you have no way to get the packets from here to there.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+%cmu.edu@localhost>
  Sr. Research Systems Programmer
  School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
  Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA




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