TCP handles segmentation and bandwidth/congestion management. It recovers from packet loss and reordering. Recent implementations are also quite resilient to address spoofing. The downsides are higher latency (potentially very high when recovering from packet loss), higher setup cost (3-way handshake), and lack of multicast support. UDP does none of that. It gives you flexibility and control, but the downside is you have to handle all of those problems yourself. Its nice but. Initial checking of availability for both active port & passive port. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
