[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the TCP stack just does a sizeof(buf) to find out how much data it has
to play with with this one packet (or the fucntion call to enter the
stack is tcp(buf,count), I don't know without looking)
If it was that easy then how come UDP couldn't do the same thing?
How come UDP needs an explicit field then?
Becoz a UDP packet is not "complete" unless it has all the payload.
If a UDP packet arrives, and the length says 10-octets, but there were
only 9, throw the packet away
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