[JDEV] UDP vs TCP

[Thomas Charron]

Quoting Peter Donald <donaldp at mad.scientist.com>:
> At 09:53  1/9/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >	But why are we discussing this?  Jabber is quite firmly TCP at
> >this point.  It would be a MAJOR overhaul to change, and the benefits
> >just aren't really there.  
> The reason Jabber wasn't adopted was purely because of this. I like Jabber
> and would like to use it as a base for IM but unfortunately TCP doesn't
> massively scale easily. Hence I planeto build Jabber-over-UDP as a solution
> and hopefully then I can stop them using evil proprietry protocols =)

  PLEASE consider creating a mod_udp to do this.  It would extend the current 
system, and add UDP support to it.  To look at how messages can be buffered 
before sending/recieving via UDP, an interesting way would be to look at 
mod_http, which does exactly that, but instead translates it for HTTP requests.

> I am not trying to dis or troll here but the fact of the matter is that
> Jabber just couldn't stack up in large environments. I want to see an OS
> solution and Jabber if at all possible. However I have to live in real
> world where scalability is an issue.

  No questions there.  The libpth issue is also big..

> Anyway I haven't started the server yet and wont for some time so I should
> shut up until I have something to show.

  Please don;t feel you have to 'put out or shut up'.  All feedback is welcome 
by everyone.  Having been popping in and out for nearly a year and a half, I've 
found that no one here ever takes that approach.  They probrably should have 
BELTED me a few times (looks around, preparing to duck in case of acceptance of 
the proposal), never once has it been a 'sit down and shut up' discusion..  ;-P

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Thomas Charron
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