> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 17:25:41 +0100
> From: zmoelnig@iem.at
> To: pd-list@iem.at
> Subject: Re: [PD] bi-directional OSC over TCP from liblo
>
> On 11/09/2012 05:14 PM, martin.peach@sympatico.ca wrote:
> > If you look inside [unpackOSCstream] you'll see that it uses [slipdec].
> > So the other end must be using [slipenc] or they won't match up.
> > Unless you are doing this over a serial connection there is no need to
> > use SLIP at all. [unpackOSC] should work properly with [tcpclient] or
> > [tcpserver].
> >
>
> but TCP/IP *is* a serial connection (that is: stream-based rather than
> packet-based).
> if you are sending OSC-data over TCP/IP without using SLIP, you are
> violating the OSC1.1 standard.
>
Ah yes. I was mixed up with the original use of slip: to pack entire tcp/ip packets, not just the payload, for transmission over a byte-oriented serial link.
Martin