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		mgaunard 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aeron: Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multica... "reliable" means that if one of the recipients observes a gap, it can ask for a replay of the missing packets.

vodou 5 months ago [–]

Sure. But if you don't have reliability at the network layer you don't have any chance to have a reliable transport layer.

fanf2 5 months ago | [–]

TCP begs to differ.

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