Reliable UDP isn’t a defined standard. And the added effort of implementing that layer probably isn’t worth the (relatively) low overhead. Besides, what sort of improvements would you expect from it, over TCP?
Andrew On December 25, 2014 at 4:27:07 PM, Ibrahim ([email protected]) wrote: Hi folks, I am just wondering why ZK uses TCP instead of UDP (IP multicast). Is there any specific reason of using TCP and not UDP (IP multicast)? Note that I meant by UDP is reliable UDP protocol, not just UDP. Thank you Ibrahim -- View this message in context: http://zookeeper-user.578899.n2.nabble.com/Why-ZK-uses-TCP-instead-of-UPD-IP-multicast-tp7580715.html Sent from the zookeeper-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
