On Monday, 03/10/2008 at 08:56 EDT, RPN01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, while I understand that, once a UDP message leaves my hands, there is no > guarantee of delivery, I would think that the RFC would kick in once the
> message had actually been sent. The fact that the failure was still inside my > box, and completely detectable, bothers me. Is it really right to say ?Oh, it?s > a UDP message, so I won?t bother to check any return codes from anything I do, > ?cause the RFC says I don?t have?ta care...? Whoever said you don't have to check return codes is smoking something. I don't know of any RFC that says you don't have to check return codes on APIs. (You'll notice that they don't talk about APIs at all!) Can you quote your source? You could have buffer shortages, interface failures, a bad specification, authorization errors, or something else unrelated to the success or failure of the other guy receiving your datagram. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
