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Re: TCP stack order question (eCos + 802.11)
- To: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at extremeeng dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] TCP stack order question (eCos + 802.11)
- From: Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:26:56 -0500
- Cc: 'eCos Disuss' <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <000801c12446$528a71c0$090110ac@TRENT>
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 04:21:38PM -0600, Trenton D. Adams wrote:
> Doesn't the TCP/IP standard insure that a computer receives
> items in the same order they were sent at the application
> level?
Yes.
> Take for instance if I sent 4 buffers of 200 bytes each. Those
> buffers should arrive on the other end of the TCP connection in
> the same order I sent them as far as the socket programmer is
> concerned right? PLEASE say yes! :)
The bytes arrive in the same order you sent them. They might
not arrive as "4 buffers", and if you depend on that behavior
your software will someday break. ;)
> I'm looking through some RFCs, but I'm not even sure if I'm
> looking at the right ones. Right now I'm looking at
> rfc2126.txt
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Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com