XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 12/12/2025 11:41, Andy Burns wrote:   
   > 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 ...   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   Oh, ok...   
      
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