Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:53:17 -0700 | From | Todd Larason <> | Subject | Re: UDP network problem |
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On Mon, Aug 18, 1997 at 10:21:25AM -0700, Joel Philip Jaeggli wrote: > There can't be any collisions on an arcnet network. As long as your > machine has got the token it's the only one sending packets. > On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Eric Hoeltzel wrote: > > Someone told me recently that UDP is a guaranteed protocol over > > arcnet.
UDP is not a guaranteed protocol over any transport. Besides the cable, there are computers running IP stacks involved, which are perfectly justified in throwing away UDP packets for a variety of reasons (resource scarcity and problem simulation coming to mind immediately).
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