Subject: Re: can anybody explain this?
To: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Incorrigible punster -- do not incorrige <jgraham@defender.VAS.viewlogic.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/20/1996 10:13:34
"Charles M. Hannum" sez:
/*
*
* BSD is where the `OOB' handling in TCP originated. The fact of the matter
* is that TCP is not designed to support OOB data at all, and the BSD way of
* doing it is a major hack. The only way to do this correctly withing the
* TCP spec is to use a second connection for transmitting OOB data.
Since you are now declaring an explicit second connection, doesn't that
mean the data is no longer out-of-band?
[In other words, OOB becomes moot?]
*/
--*greywolf;
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