[time-nuts] Possibly off topic - Jitter on Ethernet over poweradapters

[DaveH]

IP can be run on a lot of different platforms.

Check out Request for Comments: 1149

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt

Dave
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com 
> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Chris Albertson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 21:31
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Possibly off topic - Jitter on 
> Ethernet over poweradapters
> 
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Magnus Danielson
> <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > On 02/12/2013 08:19 PM, Mike S wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2/10/2013 6:04 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote:
> >>>
> >>> You should read "TCP/IP" as "Internet Protocols" (notice 
> plural form
> 
> No.  The best way to pronouncethe slanted bar is "over".
> 
> So you say "TCP over IP"
> Notice that we also many times have UDP/IP
> 
> If you what to know what al the letters are it is "Transaction Control
> Protocol over Internetwork Protocol"
> 
> TCP is a way to ensure a packet gets to an end point and in the same
> order they were sent.  "IP" is a way to move packets.  TCP makes use
> of I to send packets.
> 
> "UDP" is User Datagram Protocol and it also use IP.
> 
> In turn IP can run over any number of physical networks like Ethernet,
> WiFi X25, or ISDN.
> 
> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
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