[Chicago-talk] How reliable is UDP.

[JT Smith]

No one can tell you this number because it depends on all sorts of network conditions. 
By definition UDP is not reliable and should only be used for high speed broadcasts such 
as in online gaming.

If you're really sending small amounts of data over a lan, I'd stick with something more 
reliable than UDP.

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:24:44 -0700 (PDT)
  Richard Reina <richard at rushlogistics.com> wrote:
> Good Morning,
> 
> I am in the process of writing a short program in
> which a  server sends small amounts of info to local
> clients (on a LAN).  I do not need the bi-directional
> communication offered by TCP, however, I would like
> the communication to be reliable.  I have read that
> UDP is unreliable.  Can anyone tell me quantitatively
> how unrealiable UDP is?  How many transmission can I
> expect to fail 1 out of 100, 1000, etc?
> 
> Thank you for your attention,
> 
> Richard
> 
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