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by mgaunard 334 days ago
"reliable" means that if one of the recipients observes a gap, it can ask for a replay of the missing packets.
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vodou 334 days 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.
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fanf2 333 days ago
TCP begs to differ.

https://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoe...

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