Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote: > I know UDP is unreliable and packets may be lost, but are they > checksum'd again corruption? And if the checksum fails, is the packet > then lost?
I guess it is lost, since I guess that checksum checks are done on the IP layer. > > The real question is whether my UDP protocol needs to add it's own > checksum. As far as I understand, no, the datagram would be ignored by winsock, however I'm a newbee in UDP, so don't trust my statement. > > Also, how reliable is having multiple applications listening for the > same UDP packets on the same address and port on the same PC? > Yesterday, one application was logging packets, a second was ignoring > them, but did start working again, somehow. Good question, but I guess it would make some proplems. --- Arno Garrels [TeamICS] http://www.overbyte.be/eng/overbyte/teamics.html -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
