[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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