>>>>> "Josh" == Josh Howlett <[email protected]> writes:

    >> No, if RADIUS or the host protocol lose a message they are
    >> responsible for retransmitting.  It's possible that a connection
    >> can fail because retransmissions fail and RADIUS or the host
    >> protocol returns a protocol error.

    Josh> And that to me constitutes an assumption that the transport is
    Josh> not necessarily reliable!

In that sense there exist no reliable transports.  TCP has the same
failure.  Typically what we mean by reliable transport is that the
transport will either deliver a message or signal failure.
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