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by themoonisachees 1209 days ago
UDP gives you port numbers supported by every networking equiment your datacenter already has, instead of having to deal with raw IP frames or somehow extending how your firewalls and servers handle your special boy packets. Especially useful considering you probably want port numbers anyway, and checksums are just a nice bonus. You'll probably reimplement part of TCP on top of it too.