[Twisted-Python] UDP File Copy

[jarrod roberson]

On Apr 5, 2005 3:35 AM, Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> wrote:
> On Monday 04 April 2005 22:53, Jp Calderone wrote:
> >   Use TCP instead.  UDP might be an optimization to make later (but
> > probably not: I can push 11MB/sec over my LAN with TCP, UDP is not going to
> > do much better).
> 
> In the context of the old 'fsp' transfer program, I think it was Robert Elz
> who made the comment: "Those who do not understand TCP are doomed
> to repeat it".
> 
> There are times when a UDP-based protocol makes sense. File transfer
> almost certainly isn't one of them.
> 

the only time that UDP is really appliciable for file transfer is when
you are doing Multicast AND Reliable Multicast with Foward Error
Correction and other techniques. This is a rare case on the INTERNET
since very few routers still support Multicast.

Intra-net where you are broadcasting updates or patches to a cluster
of machines it makes since, but for peer-to-peer it just doesn't reap
any benefits on the internet proper.

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