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  2. From: fkittred@spchp13.BBN.COM (Fletcher Kittredge)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
  4. Subject: Re: Broadcastint, udp info
  5. Date: 22 Nov 92 20:08:32
  6. Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., 10 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA
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  10. Message-ID: <FKITTRED.92Nov22200832@spchp13.BBN.COM>
  11. References: <1992Nov20.191422.16018@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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  13. In-reply-to: longstre@snake-1.cae.wisc.edu's message of 20 Nov 92 19:14:22 CST
  14.  
  15.  
  16. Might I humbly suggest that if you are using UDP, and do not have a
  17. mechanism for dealing with with lost, out-of-sequence and duplicate
  18. packets, then your application is broken?  By definition, UDP is an
  19. unreliable connectionless protocol: packets can be lost, duplicated or
  20. arrive out-of-order.  It is your responsibilty to handle these
  21. conditions, not HP-UX's!  If you can't, don't use UDP.
  22.  
  23. regards,
  24. fletcher
  25.  
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