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Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:53:15 -0400
Berke Durak writes:
> For the distributed chat, I still think a (carefully-designed, i.e. not
> "hand-hacked") datagram-based protocol is more suitable; and for
> transmitting datagrams, the obvious choice is UDP.
Remember, UDP is unreliable, so you have to build a reliable structure
on top of it. By the time you are done, what you have usually ends up
looking like TCP anyway, only less well designed and implemented.
Perry
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:59