On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 12:14:04PM -0500, Signal 11 wrote: > > and looks for special SYN packets which initiate a new connection, > > and places them in a buffer. Such a connection is returned in the > > form of an UDPSocket as soon as the client accept()s (equivalent to > > TCP's backlog). > > Make sure to build in a maximum time limit for both the client and > server to wait before dropping the attempt. I screwed around with > UDP for a chat program once. I had assumed that since it was on a > switched LAN there would be no problems with data being out of > order or not arriving at all. Big mistake. :/
I could understand why there would be packets out of order with UDP, but for large number of dropped packets, wouldn't there have to be quite significant network problems. -- Travis Bemann Sendmail is still screwed up on my box. My email address is really bemann at execpc.com. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 1166 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20000829/f7d23ce2/attachment.pgp>
