XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: usenet@andyburns.uk   
      
   The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
      
   > Well the daemon runs under xinetd...for sheer laziness. I guess I could   
   > make it UDP.   
   >   
   > But I don't know what problem that would solve.   
      
   The data would arrive if a single packet got through the fog, whereas   
   with tcp at least dour packets on sequence need to make it (or get   
   retried) with UDP you could afford to spray each packet half a dozen   
   times and if one of them makes it, you're good ...   
      
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