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From: Marc Bowden <ryumo@merit.edu>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:12:01 -0500
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
--On Tuesday, February 13, 2001 23:37 -0700 Bruce <bruce@puremagic.com>
wrote:
> Felix A. Croes wrote:
>
>> I have looked at it now, and BXXP doesn't appear to have connection
>> state recovery -- automatic resending of messages lost due to a
>> dropped connection -- or UDP support.
>
> Felix,
>
> I'm having trouble seeing how your connection state recovery is
> something that is safe to do, assuming that it is something like:
>
> * I enter some commands. Some are still buffered up.
> * Connection drops.
> * Connection is re-established.
> * My buffered up commands are sent.
>
> Is that accurate?
It's not how it works in the LP world. Here, when the connection is
re-established you have a clean slate; buffered commands are lost as
soon as the connection drops.
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