From: "Peter C. Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu>
Subject: Re: UDP networking with Ada
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:17:32 -0500
Date: 2013-03-08T07:17:32-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58CdnbOaDPJBS6TM4p2dnAA@giganews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1lrwhejdn8zy1.rn2edujfic0u$.dlg@40tude.net>
On 03/08/2013 07:12 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> Yes. UDP is wrong choice, almost always. For multicast purposes there
exist
> stream-oriented protocols which supersede UDP, e.g. PGM. So, except for
> communication to legacy devices and LAN broadcasts UDP should never be
> used.
UDP is a good choice for simple request/response protocols where both
the request and the response are small enough to fit into a single
datagram. For example: DNS. Also in this situation the overhead of TCP
might be considered undesirable.
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-08 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-08 0:50 UDP networking with Ada Peter C. Chapin
2013-03-08 3:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-03-08 18:28 ` Tero Koskinen
2013-03-08 6:47 ` anon
2013-03-08 7:50 ` Simon Wright
2013-03-08 12:14 ` Peter C. Chapin
2013-03-08 8:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-03-08 11:50 ` Simon Wright
2013-03-08 12:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-03-08 12:17 ` Peter C. Chapin [this message]
2013-03-08 15:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-03-08 8:58 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-03-08 11:58 ` Stephen Leake
2013-03-16 22:27 ` Kevin K
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