Two Pythons talking to each other?

phil phil at ricochet.net
Fri Jul 9 02:53:21 EDT 1999


On 8 Jul 1999 17:05:25 GMT, donn at u.washington.edu (Donn Cave) wrote:

>phil at ricochet.net (phil) writes:
>| On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 05:30:40 GMT, "Hans Nowak" <ivnowa at hvision.nl>
>| wrote:
>...
>May be worth noting that application protocols can be and are also
>designed on top of UDP, where among other things they may add some
>kind of sequence monitor - datagram delivery isn't guaranteed, a
>datagram may be discarded if its system buffer has filled up.

Yes, if you are stated or you care about order  then  you probably
need  to sequence. Not only can datagrams not turn up, but they can
turn up out of order. Rare on a LAN, sure.

phil.








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