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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:59:16 -0500
From: Ioan Ionita <opslynx@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Ioan Ionita <opslynx@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Unreliable TCP?
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Hello.  I apologize if this may sound stupid/unknowledgeable.  I'm
currently fooling around with real time voice conferencing
applications which use the UDP protocol.  However, certain firewalls
don't allow UDP traffic, therefore I tried UDP over TCP as a
workaround.  This failed miserably, as the ACK aspect of TCP, which
delays everything when a packet is lost or received out of order makes
voice conferencing anything but real time.  So I was wondering if
there's any way to disable the whole reliability checking of TCP in
the linux kernel. Maybe configure the kernel to never request the
retransmission of a packet, even if it detects packet loss/bad order?
Thanks :)
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