[24720] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mohler, Jeff)
Wed Aug 4 15:14:57 1999
From: "Mohler, Jeff" <jeff.mohler@wilcom.com>
To: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>,
"Mark R. Lindsey" <mark@vielle.datasys.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 14:09:47 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>I am seeking a mechanism for reliable delivery of large blobs through a
>network of occasionally-connected hosts that can forward the blobs using
>available transport protocols.
>
>I can't find it, though. Most of the networking materials I can find
>deal more with immediate-transmission networks, where the destination
>host is reachable at the instant that the source host transmits. (This
>isn't a catenet.)
>
>If anyone knows of such a common or standardized system, please drop me
>a note.
sounds to me like email, where the sending host tries again and again
over a defined period of time to delivery data. no?
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Or (God help us) UUCP if scheduling is a factor.
