IL (network protocol)
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The Internet Link protocol or IL is a connection-based transport layer protocol designed at Bell Labs originally as part of the Plan 9 operating system and is used to carry 9P. It is assigned the Internet Protocol number of 40. It is similar to TCP but much simpler.
Its main features are:
- Reliable datagram service
- In-sequence delivery
- Internetworking using IP
- Low complexity, high performance
- Adaptive timeouts
As of the Fourth Edition of Plan 9, 2003, IL is deprecated in favor of TCP/IP because it doesn't handle long-distance connections well.[1]
See also
References
- ^ "Plan 9 From Bell Labs Fourth Release Notes". Lucent Technologies. June 2003. Retrieved February 2, 2013.
External links
- Dave Presotto; Phil Winterbottom. "The IL protocol".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)—The original paper describing IL
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