parsing packets

Dan Stromberg drsalists at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 19:11:26 EDT 2011


On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Thomas Rachel <
nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915 at spamschutz.glglgl.de> wrote:

> Am 10.07.2011 22:59 schrieb Littlefield, Tyler:
>
>  Hello all:
>> I'm working on a server that will need to parse packets sent from a
>> client, and construct it's own packets.
>>
>
> Are these packets sent as separate UDP packets or embedded in a TCP stream?
> In the first case, you already have packets and only have to parse them. In
> a stream, you first have to split them up.
>

Aren't UDP packets subject to fragmentation and aggregation?
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