was TightVNC compression vs. SSH compression, now protocol overheads

[Tim Waugh]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:04:16AM +0000, Jonathan Morton wrote:

> ... does not run on UDP.  I don't think NFS does either.

Yes it does.

> You forget that UDP stands for Unreliable Datagram Protocol,

No it doesn't.

> If you look closely at the RFB specification, you will notice that
> there is no defined way to locate the beginning of a message, unless
> you can follow the entire stream up to that point (you can guess,
> but that is also unreliable).

Yeah.  Request for RFB V4: change that! ;-)

On the subject of UDP: I thought someone on this list had implemented
multicast VNC.  Surely that uses UDP?

Tim.
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