giving priority to udp over tcp?

2002-07-18 Thread Benjamin Franks
I'm using FreeBSD 4.5 and have custom applications that send receive network packets over both tcp and udp sockets. For the sake of an example, assume that the udp traffic is always constant, but the tcp traffic density changes. During times of heavy tcp traffic density, will udp messages which

tcp SYN retries?

2002-07-18 Thread Benjamin Franks
When I attempt to make a sock_stream connection to an IP, and DON'T receive an ACK or RST response, it seems that the system retries a finite number of times by sending additional SYN packets. There also looks to be a 3 or 6 second delay between SYN retries. After four or five, the connection f