On Tue, 3 May 2005, William Chops Westfield wrote:

> On May 3, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Peter wrote:
>
>> (you only need a subset of the protocol).
>> 
> This is theoretically true.  OTOH, I wonder how well it works in practice; if 
> you
> don't negotiate the way windows or macos does, things may not talk to you...
>
>> it does not need to negotiate async maps
>> 
> Async maps are a good idea, though.  Without negotiating them, you'll 
> send every byte less than 32 as two bytes, decreasing throughput 
> rather a lot...

But most of these applications send ASCII in the payload so most of the 
packets would not need to be escaped. And if they do not send ASCII then 
they pobably send short binary and that could travel as data in a ICMP 
echo request packet that need not be answered ...

Peter
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