Subj : Re: error corrcting software + location on pc To : comp.programming From : mwojcik Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 06:29 pm In article , Peter Ammon writes: > > I can't think offhand of any network protocols that use error correcting > codes. That made me wonder if there were any prominent examples of ECC network protocols. Detect-and-retransmit does seem to have been the widespread choice for network data transmission, except in some cases for broadcast data (where retransmission for backward error correction may be impractical). Does anyone know if proprietary protocols like Telebit's PEP used ECC rather than detect-and-retransmit? I'd guess not, considering the overhead for FEC. -- Michael Wojcik michael.wojcik@microfocus.com Not the author (with K.Ravichandran and T.Rick Fletcher) of "Mode specific chemistry of HS + N{_2}O(n,1,0) using stimulated Raman excitation". .