[e2e] UDP length field
Thomas H. Ptacek
tqbf at sonicity.com
Mon Mar 26 00:25:26 PST 2001
> The validity checks is another issue, all UDPs that we've
> looked at seems to adhere to Craigs rules. There is one
> exception which is Quake's home-grown UDP. They do some
Quake has its own UDP? I can see (evil) reasons for building ones
own TCP, but almost no benefit to a custom UDP. Is this an OS issue
(ie, they reimplemented sockets for speed) or did they also build
their own IP? Does anyone know the answer to this?
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Thomas H. Ptacek
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