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21093: Re: [MUD-Dev] UDP Revisted

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Rickey" <daver@mythicentertainment.com>

> The fundamental issues of TCP vs. UDP are very simple, and are
> only indirectly related to "reliability".

> TCP delivers all packets, and delivers them in order.  This is
> good for file transfers and such, because it allows you to stream
> directly from a socket to memory to file system without worrying
> about data integrity.  However, this has it's built-in downside:
> It will *only* deliver packets in order, if you are sending
> packets 1, 2, 3, 4, and packet 2 doesn't make it, packets 3 and 4
> will be held until packet 2 *does* arrive.

Well, see, there ya go.  Now I've seen somebody else state the
in-orderness of TCP as a reason for not using TCP, and implementing
just the reliability part over UDP.

Silly me, read all the incoming messages before replying.

lol


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