Didnt I just say that hl DOES use UDP to transmit packets and that they can't be re-requested for being out of date
Never mind, it sounded to me as if you were saying the receiver would know that a packet timed out and could request a retransmit from the sender, but didn't in the case of HL. Misunderstanding.
As for lost packets, I'm not quite sure what you are getting at either, lost is lost and with UDP there is no follow up - thats why its UDP and not TCP ?
Maybe I'm missing the point ... let me know if I am.
I was just trying to point out that using UDP doesn't necessarily mean that you have to do without reliability. It's just that the network protocol doesn't have it built in so you have to provide the means for a reliable transmission in your application yourself. For example I'm pretty sure that HL uses a packet count in the PDU to be able to tell when packets get lost or arrive out of sequence.
And why does your mail system keep adding {SPAM?} to the subject line?
Florian.
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