• @neeeeDanke@feddit.de
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    04 months ago

    Nah, TCP is still just kicking the box over, but just kicking it over again, if the reciever doesn’t kick back a box saying they got it.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    4 months ago

    UDP seems more like a ball fired from canon to me. You may not be prepared for it and you won’t know what state it’s in when it gets here, but that packet is making it to the gate no matter what. Or, in the rare case it doesn’t, it means someone else is having a real bad time.

    • @bleistift2@feddit.de
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      04 months ago

      You forgot to mention that you might get it twice, or thrice, or more, and in different versions.

      • Neato
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        04 months ago

        (novice) Why would you get UDP packets multiple times? UDP doesn’t check for acceptance I thought.

          • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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            04 months ago

            That is extraordinarily rare and I’m not even sure if it’s possible anymore. That was potential attack vector in the 90’s where you have a port on network switch, and then you flood the cam table with thousands of bogus mac addresses until you fill it up, then the switch turns into a hub, and you can now sniff all traffic traversing the switch. These days I’m not sure what will happen if you do successfully fill up a switches cam table. Also cam table sizes are are much much larger now. ~128k entry’s vs maybe 1000 back in the day.