Re: UDP concept help please
On 2005-10-26, person <frank.l.lane@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm trying to write a program to capture a torrent of UDP messages.
> The way I understand it, UDP is an unreliable protocol and packets can
> be lost. However, I want to maximize the amount of traffic I capture
> from the port. My first idea was to have a process with one thread
> that just watched the port and stuffed each UDP message into a message
> queue. Another thread in the same process would fetch messages from
> the queue and do whatever with it.
If packets are lost it will probably be because of network conditions [line
noise, transmission errors, etc] not because you didn't pick them up in time as
you seem to think
.
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