Christian Seberino wrote:
I noticed that UDP has a total length field (bytes 5 & 6) but TCP does NOT! (TCP has a header length field only which is half of byte 13)
a UDP packet is the entire message. Each UDP packet is self contained. TCP packets are part of a stream, a fragment of the whole stream. So nobody knows how long the stream is.
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