Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261970AbTEBIuA (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 04:50:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261985AbTEBIuA (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 04:50:00 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:7369 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261970AbTEBIt6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 04:49:58 -0400 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sendfile In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.5.17-20030301 ("Bubbles") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.20-xfs (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 11:02:20 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 988 Lines: 23 In article you wrote: > I don't think TCP is suitable for streaming multimedia stuff to clients. > For instance, if a packet does not arrive on the client, it's better to > handle this in the client and skip a frame or show one of worse quality > than to have the video stop while waiting for the server to resend. Yes, this is a problem, but on the other hand, if you want to stream to a large number of clients, you need to consider deployment and firewalling issues. Nearly all streaming applications out there nowaday offer at least a TCP (or HTTP) fallback, or use only TCP. Greetings Bernd -- eckes privat - http://www.eckes.org/ Project Freefire - http://www.freefire.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/