On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:24:49PM +0100, Damjan wrote: > Is there a way in Linux socket programming, when using TCP sockets to be > able to require notifications of when the TCP ACK packets are received. > > If I send some data over a TCP socket, I'd like to know for sure > if the data reached its recipient. A blocking "send" call, that blocks > until all ACK's for the data are received back, would be good enough. If you want that, you have to make your own 'tcp' with UDP. Another solution is to set a very small window size, select(2) will then return on reception on the ACK. Set the window size to one packet in that case (~1500 bytes). Good luck! -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://lartc.org Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
