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
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