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From: murthy@la.excelan.com (M.D. Srinivas Murthy)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Beginner's info TCP & UDP
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Date: 17 Jul 90 17:07:28 GMT
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One important reason to use UDP is when broadcasting is needed. You cannot
send a broadcast packet with TCP. (One example: rwho)

Further if an application is designed as a state-less machine (like NFS)
one has to use UDP.

-murthy