[24728] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Faust)
Wed Aug 4 17:38:30 1999
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:26:12 +0000
From: Faust <faust@grift.com>
To: "Mark R. Lindsey" <mark@vielle.datasys.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sounds to me like UUCP.
"Mark R. Lindsey" wrote:
>
> 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.)
