Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 3 years ago. The community reviewed whether to reopen this question 5 months ago and left it closed: Original close reason(s) were … Read more
I’ve read a number of articles about UDP packet sizes but have been unable to come to a conclusion on whats correct. A number of services restrict the largest UDP packet to 512 bytes (like dns) Given the minimum MTU on the internet is 576 , and the size of the IPv4 header is 20 … Read more
Can two applications on the same machine bind to the same port and IP address? Taking it a step further, can one app listen to requests coming from a certain IP and the other to another remote IP? I know I can have one application that starts off two threads (or forks) to have similar … Read more
Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 5 years ago. Improve this question Since TCP guarantees packet delivery and thus can be considered “reliable”, whereas UDP doesn’t guarantee anything and packets can … Read more
