Tag: User Datagram Protocol
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Poisoning the internet
This news item struck me as interesting and even borderline alarming – as it suggests that 18% of all traffic (and 41% of UDP traffic) on the Internet is from one attempt to poison BitTorrentnetworks worldwide: a truly extraordinary finding, but one that seems well grounded, at least on first blush. For those who do […]
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Differences between UDP and TCP
This is another reminder post, I am afraid. UDP – user datagram protocol – and TCP – transmission control protocol – are two transport layer protocols in the in internet stack. UDP is a lightweight protocol and it’s key features are: end to end (multiplexed and demultiplex via port numbers) connectionless message-orientated (ie each datagram […]