Re: UDP for data?

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Hi Stef,


On 11/07/18 21:30, Stef Bon wrote:
I'm very interested in making SSH use UDP for large data chunks.

You forgot to add, "large data chunks, that you don't mind going missing, and that aren't all that large", because, you know, UDP has no delivery guarantee, not even best effort.  If you want to guarantee delivery you need the recipient to send an acknowledgement, and you have to take care of splitting large chunks into datagram-sized pieces and reassembling them at the other end. When you've done all of that, you might as well have used TCP in the first place.

I remember, when Sun first released NFS they used UDP for transport because "performance", and then, not so very long later, had to implement TCP transport because "reliability".

It's really not my place to say whether your request will ever be accepted, but why not try implementing it, create a  patch, and see?  At the very least you'll have something that works for you, even if, (as I predict), it is rejected for the baseline.

David
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