Thanks David That's is the best real world example that justifies and favors UDP over TCP that I've read in years. Coming form the security world I'm used to point out the million reasons why UDP is generally bad in any security-sensitive application.
Security-wise using UDP for VoIP (or anything else) should be subject of careful consideration. -ivan David Barrett wrote: > Hm, I’m not sure I agree. > > > > UDP has a feature that TCP simply cannot match: lossiness. This is a > desirable trait for VoIP that TCP lacks. If a voice packet gets > dropped, it’s not merely unnecessary to retransmit, it’s actually > harmful to voice quality. > > -- "Buy the ticket, take the ride" -HST Ivan Arce CTO CORE SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES http://www.coresecurity.com PGP Fingerprint: C7A8 ED85 8D7B 9ADC 6836 B25D 207B E78E 2AD1 F65A _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
