Re: Network packet drop?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:00:52 +0000 (GMT)

> packets at the highest possible speed, simply by looping a
> sendto(socket, ...), which should block until a packet is out. What I

No. UDP is unreliable. The kernel will discard sender side, receive side and
anywhere else it feels like

Alan
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