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SubjectRe: UDP network problem
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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