taking python enterprise level?...

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> That better way turned out to asynchronous update transactions.  All we
> did was keep feeding updates to the remote site and forget about ACKS.
> We then had a second process which handled ACKS and tracked which
> packets had been properly transferred.  The system had IDs on each
> update and retries happened if ACKS didn't happen soon enough.
> Naturally we ignored ACKS that we had already processed.

sounds like using UDP to me, of course with a protocol on top (namely 
the one you implemented).

Any reason you sticked to TCP instead?

Diez