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tptacek
on Oct 31, 2022
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We need a replacement for TCP in the datacenter [p...
Nothing deliberately drops UDP packets, but packets of all sorts get dropped when there's congestion.
hinkley
on Oct 31, 2022
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Which is why protocols like TCP are built on back pressure - so you don’t keep making the exact same mistake in a tight loop. Happy path behavior doesn’t matter when the worst case or even median case are nonfunctional.
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