Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:51:41 +0200
From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>,
       Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       bgmerrell@novell.com, hirofuchi@users.sourceforge.net,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, usbip-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: USBIP protocol
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:46:27PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:31:43AM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
(...)
> > I would also have proposed SCTP. The telco carries seems be very happy
> > with it.
> 
> I'm actually looking into the sunrpc protocol.  That has the advantages:
>  - Already has an in-kernel implementation
>  - Widely understood and properly documented
>  - Can be run over TCP or UDP or even RDMA

and :
   - already supported by most firewalls.

Willy

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