15 Aug
2003
15 Aug
'03
09:49
On Friday 15 Aug 2003 08:16, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
SSL/TLS would be to much overhead and inefficient when having UDP packets (usually, it isn't best thing to encapsulte non-reliable datagrams into a reliable datastream, because if the application needs reliable datastreams, it opens a TCP connection instead ;)).
Higher and lower level traffic can be packed and tunneled through even a higher network layer, can't it?
No only would it be bad idea for efficiency reason as Stefan described, but also for robustness in the face of significant packet loss. UDP packets get through eventually if they're retried, wheras a TCP/IP connection can't tolerate even 50% packet loss. This is the reason SNMP preferred UDP to TCP. Rob