On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 17:13 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Jack hat gesagt: // Jack wrote:
In fact with TCP, everything works fine (that the aim of this
protocol) with [until]. If it works with TCP, it should work with UDP (or i'm wrong).You are a little bit wrong: The possibility to lose messages (i.e. packets) is one of the "advantages" of UDP over TCP. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol#Difference_between_TCP_a...
yeah, you're right. anyway, i think, that the problems jack is reporting are a bit suspcicious, at least. when creating a socket on localhost, i don't see, why so many messages should be dropped. this usually doesn't happen on a not-too-busy network, even when using udp.
i'll check here too, in order to see, if i get similar results.
roman
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