Re: RFC 1226

From: Hamish Moffatt (yqw@conumacable.com)
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 09:21:49 EET

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On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:30:40PM -0600, Mike Murphree wrote:
> On Feb 29, 2004, at 7:21 PM, Nick Schmalenberger wrote:
> >> Why
> >>doesn't APRS use IP and UDP? Thanks.
>
> APRS was designed for packet radio, and not the internet...

Indeed. APRS could send UDP packets over broadcast IP, but what would
be the benefit? You have several extra layers of protocol (at least 30
bytes of headers) for no benefit.

Hamish

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