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Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge


On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:58:17PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >Unfortunately, IP-over-cheetah can only handle short stretches of huge
> >bandwidth communication, and then the network goes down and the
> >connections need to be reset...

And that's different from existing IP-over-<your-transport-here>, how,
exactly?  :)

> And the power requirements are a little messy...

Oh, not really.  Just toss 'em a few ACK frames from time to time and
they'll keep running.  Never run out of ACK frames, or more than your
data packets might get munched!
(Ok, this is severely OT, so I'll stop now :)

> cgf

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