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Thanks, TCP/IP (lemmy.today)

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[-] FishFace@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

If you're using TCP and losing packets you should be panicking though, because something is very wrong...

[-] wischi@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FishFace@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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.

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