Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Beginner's info TCP & UDP Message-ID: <1990Jul17.221845.4127@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <81247@srcsip.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 90 22:18:45 GMT In article hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes: >People tend to use UDP where (1) they plan to be making isolated >queries... (2) they need more >performance than they think they can get from TCP... Doesn't it also get some use for things like packet voice, where timely unreliable delivery is better than unpredictably-delayed reliable delivery? Agreed that the basic answer is "use TCP unless you have a very good reason for UDP". If nothing else, it's much easier to get a high-quality implementation by using a pre-built one than by building it yourself. -- NFS: all the nice semantics of MSDOS, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology and its performance and security too. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry