Re: UDP communication Question
Re: UDP communication Question
- Subject: Re: UDP communication Question
- From: Mark Thomas <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:05:08 +0000
- Organization: Coderus Ltd
As long this buffer is good for all tcp sockets and udp sockets, then sounds
good to me.
I know when you OTBind a tcp configuration, you need to specific the max
number of connections.
But udp it said it didn't use it :-(, so are the docs wrong ???
Thanks
Mark.
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Mark Thomas (email@hidden) wrote
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> I was wondering if you are using UDP transaction less communication, and
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> you setup a listener on a particular port, and somebody sends you something,
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> and you are listening and then you pick up the message,
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> What happens if you haven't returned to listening to pickup the next
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> message ???.
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The network stack and ethernet drivers both have a pool of memory to hold
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onto messages until the application is ready to read them. However, these
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pools are only so big (depends on the OS, but maybe 5-10k), so either you
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read the packets in a reasonable timeframe or incoming data will be lost.
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Matt
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