[ECOS] TCP stack order question (eCos + 802.11)

[Grant Edwards]

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
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