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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:53:57 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600
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Hi!

> > > This is true, but one thing I'd really like to have is controlled buffer
> > > overrun, which TCP *doesn't* have.  I really think an ad hoc UDP protocol
> > > (I've already begun sketching on the details) is more appropriate in this
> > > particular case.
> > 
> > Explain 'controlled buffer overrun'. BTW if you make it UDP please include
> > something like SHA hash or tea hash and shared secret
> > 
> 
> I *REALLY* don't know if that is reasonable; it may have to fall into the
> category of "supported but not required".  Requiring an SHA hash in a
> small bootstrap loader may not exactly be a reasonable expectation! 
> However, I think the protocol is inherently going to be asymmetric, with
> as much as possible unloaded.

Being able to remotely resed machine with crashed userland would be
*very* nice, too...
								Pavel
-- 
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
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