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Originally Posted by kermitology
Explain to me the difference between UDP and TCP/IP.
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From CompEng at the UofA - TCP is connection orientated, UDP is connectionless orientated.
Basically, TCP error checks and checks to make sure the order is correct to make sure the packet arrives, UDP doesnt. Alot more overhead in TCP but alot more reliable connection
UDP sends in burst mode and assumes everything went fine. Alot less backend checking. I believe it only checks the size of the chunk.
http://www.skullbox.net/tcpudp.php
Basically the only thing that comes to mind for UDP are ping type requests.