RFC 512 (rfc512) - Page 2 of 2


More on lost message detection



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RFC 512              MORE ON LOST MESSAGE DETECTION             May 1973


storage (expensive) or that RFNM's be handled by a swapped process (also
expensive).  The third proposal (that of a host-to-host acknowledgment
scheme) is perhaps the best, but as that requires quite major changes to
the level 2 protocol, an interim solution such as that proposed here
seems of value.










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