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Subject: Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600
To: jas88@cam.ac.uk (James Sutherland)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:52:20 +0000 (GMT)
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> > I have toyed a few times about having a simple Ethernet- or UDP-based
> > console protocol (TCP is too heavyweight, sorry) where a machine would
> > seek out a console server on the network.  Anyone has any ideas about
> > it?
> 
> Excellent plan: data centre sysadmins the world over will worship your
> name if it works...

Sounds like MOP on the old Vaxen. TCP btw isnt as heavyweight as people 
sometimes think. You can (and people have) implemented a simple TCP client
and IP and SLIP in 8K of EPROM on a 6502. There is a common misconception
that a TCP must be complex.

All you actually _have_ to support is receiving frames in order, sending one
frame at a time when the last data is acked and basic backoff. You dont have
to parse tcp options, you dont have to support out of order reassembly.

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