Messages in this thread |  | | From | Peter Monta <> | Subject | Re: Minimizing dropped UDP packets | Date | Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:13:28 -0700 (PDT) |
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> The real fix is to add flow control of course.
I'm not so sure---it's very attractive for data acquisition devices to throw generic UDP packets onto the net to be vacuumed up by general-purpose machines. (Multicast can be nice here too; load balancing, redundancy.)
For example, UDP goes nicely into an FPGA. TCP would be almost unthinkable. Even a UDP back channel for roll-your-own simpler flow control would be almost as bad; also, any flow control restricts you to unicast.
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