On August 30, 2005 3:25:12 AM -0400 der Mouse <mouse%Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA@localhost> wrote:
A TCP tunnel would change the characteristics of most UDP apps quite significantly and would not be desirable, I'd think.Depends on what you're using UDP for. It will change the characteristics of UDP, but whether the change is significant will depend on the application UDP is being put to. For example, I would expect it to work fine for DNS traffic (which is pretty close to the only use I can see for it offhand, though that could just mean I don't do much with UDP).
But what happens when DNS times out and sends a retry, while TCP has also queued it's own retry? You end up drastically increasing the amount of network traffic. I fail to see how that's a Good Thing. So I'm not sure what you mean by "works fine". What happened or what were the general thoughts on this when X.25 was prevalent? TCP over X.25 is even more interesting than UDP over X.25. Or were IP protocoles not really used over X.25? -frank