Am 27.03.2013 um 11:31 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu>:
> Semantically, datagrams can get lost or arrive out of order. A or B will > never know as there are no guarantees. To add reliability, you need > acknowledgements, retries, numbering, and so on. If you do all that with a > stream interface, you are building your own TCP layer. Yes, but using a stream does not necessarily mean that the transport is reliable. It can still be a stream of (modern speak) "eventually consistent" transport :) I think we discussed it thoroughly and didn't want to hijack the original post. Norbert
