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Phil Frisbie, Jr. — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:25:22 +0000

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Comment on Ask Phil – Losing UDP packets by Phil Frisbie, Jr.

Phil Frisbie, Jr. — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:56:05 +0000

Hi Jason, it has been a while…

The biggest problem, as I understand it, is that the default UDP buffer size for modern OSs is not adequate, at least for artificial test cases like the one above. Most, by default, cannot buffer more than 2-4 MAX size UDP datagrams (130-260K bytes). And UDP buffers are not dynamically allocated like TCP buffers (at least on *nix like OSs), they are allocated at application startup.

RFC 768, which describes UDP, is one of the shortest I have ever read! What is really significant to me if the LACK of details on the operation of a TCP/IP stack. That is the reason I said that the stack can pretty much drop a UDP datagram whenever it wants.

I have some TCP/IP stack source code that I will look at later and see if it sheds any more light on this subject.

Comment on Ask Phil – Losing UDP packets by Jason Winnebeck

Jason Winnebeck — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:26:25 +0000

I think the author understands that UDP packets can be dropped (since they explicitly mention “if I have a private network”), but I don’t think that’s the real answer to the question. Yes, by the nature of UDP the packets can be dropped anytime and you should account for that possibility. But, there’s still the intellectual question of why, given a private network. I don’t have a great answer for that. The OS will drop when the buffer is full, but (assuming local Ethernet) I believe network cards will try to resend packets due to collisions on the LAN. So what other events would actually cause loss?