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13546: Re: [MUD-Dev] datagrams

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From: Steve Houchard <stevehou@engin.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:15:35 -0400 (EDT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Ola Fosheim [iso-8859-1] Gr=F8stad wrote:

> Greg Underwood wrote:
> > At 11:51 AM 4/28/00 +0200, Ola Fosheim Gr=F8stad wrote:
>=20
> > Why would you be sending duplicate packets?
>=20
> I would not, but the network could create some. For some applications
> you probably don't have to worry, but I do.

You actually would on occassion depending on your retransmission protocol.
There's no practical bound on the arrival delay of an individual packet
(in terms of time anyway). =20

Steve




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