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<H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] Transport layer (UDP vs TCP)</H1>
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<LI><em>From</em>: Niklas Elmqvist <<A HREF="mailto:d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se">d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se</A>></LI>
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On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Ben Greear wrote:
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> If your packets can be fragmented at the last step (I'm assuming most
> players will be using PPP over a modem) then it could become very nasty
> as far as reading a complete packet in no? Does the UDP somehow keep
> you from reading half of a packet (the other half of which has been lost
> forever?)
Nope, luckily not.
> For instance, I send a 512 byte UDP packet. Can the receiver ever just
> receive the first 256 bytes or so? Surely not, as this would make it
> basically impossible to code anything without writing another layer on
> top of it...
I believe UDP is little more than plain IP with a few other features
thrown in. One is a checksum which used to check the integrity of the
data, the other is the ability to multiplex information across port
numbers. As such, UDP does not guarantee delivery, and neither does it
guarantee sequential delivery, but it does guarantee correct datagrams --
if the checksum is invalid, the datagram is discarded.
> Ben Greear (greear#cyberhighway,net) <A HREF="http://www.primenet.com/~greear">http://www.primenet.com/~greear</A>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00739" HREF="msg00739.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Transport layer (UDP vs TCP)</A></strong>,
Jon Leonard <a href="mailto:jleonard#divcom,umop-ap.com">jleonard#divcom,umop-ap.com</a>, Tue 17 Mar 1998, 19:22 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00745" HREF="msg00745.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Transport layer (UDP vs TCP)</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Wed 18 Mar 1998, 05:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00752" HREF="msg00752.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Transport layer (UDP vs TCP)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00758" HREF="msg00758.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Transport layer (UDP vs TCP)</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Thu 19 Mar 1998, 00:52 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00763" HREF="msg00763.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Transport layer (UDP vs TCP)</A></strong>,
Niklas Elmqvist <a href="mailto:d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se">d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se</a>, Thu 19 Mar 1998, 08:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00778" HREF="msg00778.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Transport layer (UDP vs TCP)</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Fri 20 Mar 1998, 03:06 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00779" HREF="msg00779.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Transport layer (UDP vs TCP)</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Fri 20 Mar 1998, 04:28 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00746" HREF="msg00746.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] SfD: Clientside Caching</A></strong>,
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