[twsocket] Silly UDP questions

2006-08-17 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
I know UDP is unreliable and packets may be lost, but are they checksum'd again corruption? And if the checksum fails, is the packet then lost? The real question is whether my UDP protocol needs to add it's own checksum. Also, how reliable is having multiple applications listening for the

Re: [twsocket] Silly UDP questions

2006-08-17 Thread Arno Garrels
Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote: I know UDP is unreliable and packets may be lost, but are they checksum'd again corruption? And if the checksum fails, is the packet then lost? I guess it is lost, since I guess that checksum checks are done on the IP layer. The real question