If you're so lazy that you have to rely on a lower level protocol for reliability, rather than implementing your own reliability features at the application layer, it's time to stop programming.
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Anonymous2011-11-08 11:33
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Except when packets get lost or delayed or reordered in transit or one endpoint closes the socket without notice or the partners have different processing speeds/buffer-size or path MTU is not 1.5k or data needs a out-of-order path.