• wischi@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    You can lose packets. Just cut the cable, but the other side will notice that the transmission is incomplete.

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      10 months ago

      Shouldn’t the engineer be a bit more worried if the cable’s been cut?

      If UDP drops packets it’s probably nothing. If TCP drops packets it’s because something’s actually wrong.