UDP

Jamie Lokier jamie at shareable.org
Mon Dec 8 13:37:30 GMT 2008


Charles Darwin wrote:
> My question is does rsync use UDP? If not by defaut, then how do I  
> enable it? Can I compile rsync with UDP as default protocol?

rsync uses a byte stream over TCP, SSH, or any other application
implementing a byte stream that you want, using the "-e" option.

UDP is not a byte stream protocol and quite inappropriate for rsync.

Why do you ask for UDP?

-- Jamie


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