[evla-sw-discuss] alerts - reliable delivery

[Bill Sahr]

James,

As far as I know, there is no evidence that definitely points to
dropped packets.  There could have been other reasons why the
alert-on & alert-off messages did not get matched up.

Bill

James Robnett wrote:
>    I would like to *know* whether there's evidence of missed packets.   That
> should be very unlikely.   If it happened there's something wrong and I need
> to know about it.
> 
>    There's a tremendous difference between a protocol not being guarenteed
> to be reliable and it's being 'un-reliable'.   Guarenteed vs not guarenteed is 
> pretty much the difference between 0% chance and .000000000001% chance (or 
> less).
> 
> James
> 
> On Monday 14 March 2005 01:24 pm, Ken Sowinski wrote:
> 
>>When we discussed this last week I offered a minority opinion
>>that we had no real evidence of missed packets yet.
> 
> 
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