29 Aug
1996
29 Aug
'96
4:49 a.m.
Dick St.Peters <stpeters@NetHeaven.com> wrote:
One dirty little secret is that most phone calls and videoconferences ram their way past data transmissions by using a bully of a communications method called UDP. Unlike the more polite Transmission Control Protocol, TCP, which drops back when it detects congestion, UDP continues at full speed, elbowing ahead of TCP traffic.
Sigh, I guess you need to have part of your network shut down by the above-described effect to appreciate just how unusually accurate a portrayal that description is.
ping -f does it much better. UDP is not bad per se. Broken applications are. --vadim