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?]

 */





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