On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I understand that UDT isn't part of the kernel, but am not >> sure why you disagree with the term replace. >> Here's an exchange I found on a forum. The UDT author >> replies to the question with 3 paragraphs. >> > > OK, brief networking stack lesson here. > > IP, the basis for all of these technologies, is a Layer 3 protocol. > TCP and UDP are both built on IP. They are Layer 4. > HTTP, SSH, SMTP, DNS, etc. are all built on TCP or UDP. They are Layer 7 > (application) protocols. > > > To be slightly pedantic, anything running over TCP/IP is handling layers 5, 6, and 7 of the OSI stack. Session, Presentation, and Application. -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130303/10671d44/attachment.html>