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Comment by theamk

This CDC is "Content Defined Chunking" - fast incremental file transfer.

Use case is to copy file over slow net, but the previous version is already there, so one can save time by only sending changed parts of the file.

Not to be confused with USB CDC ("communications device class"), an USB device protocol used to present serial ports and network cards. It can also be used to transfer files, the old PC-to-PC cables used it by implementing two network cards connected to each other.

parent theamk 1 year ago

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