The Internet Link protocol or IL is a connection-based
transport-layer protocol designed at
Bell Labs
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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.
Header
struct IPIL
;
See also
*
Fast Local Internet Protocol
The Fast Local Internet Protocol (FLIP) is a communication protocol for LAN and WAN, conceived for distributed applications. FLIP was designed at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam to support remote procedure call (RPC) in the Amoeba distributed ...
References
Further reading
* —The original paper describing IL
Inferno (operating system)
Internet Protocol based network software
Network protocols
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Transport layer protocols
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