poll: have you ever designed a protocol that uses TCP or UDP directly? (vs using protocols that are based on TCP/UDP like DNS, HTTP, SSH, etc)
(you can pick more than one)
I'm so curious about what the 30% of you who are designing custom UDP-based protocols are doing, I would love to hear more!
(please only reply if you responded “yes, UDP” to the above poll)
@b0rk IPX to UDP gateway, to interface with old (old) equipment. IPX is also a packet-oriented protocol, so bridging it to UDP kept the same semantics.
Also a health and heartbeat protocol, where dropped packets are useful as a metric. Neither are still in use any more.
Oh, and a high speed camera protocol using jumbo UDP packets over a 10G link, from a custom scientific grade system. That one is likely still in use.
Julia Evans
Ray Lee