Re: netlink drops messages.

["James R. Leu" <jleu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:48:48PM +0300, kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > You didn't say "retransmission" of missed netlink information, you said
> > "resynchronize doing dumps".  These are completly differnt things.
> 
> Think a bit.

About what?  How silly it is to think that netlink isn't reliable?

> > If netlink can't provide reliable update information then it needs to be
> > changed.
> 
> 8)8)8)
> 
> If you will invent a way to reliably store N bytes having
> storage of only 1 byte, you will make a revolution in technique. 8)

I'm not asking for the impossible.  Sequence numbers and/or client
to server ACKs would solve the problem.

Jim

> Alexey
-- 
James R. Leu