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Re: FCC & Internet phones

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Howland)
Tue Mar 12 10:17:35 1996

Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 16:10:11 +0100
From: Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com

Adam Shostack wrote:
> Gary Howland wrote:
> | Are you saying UDP protocols don't retransmit un-acked packets?
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> | If not, then you can't be sure the duplicates are TCP.
> 
> Err, yes.  Thats the point of UDP; its unreliable and has no
> acknowweldgement.

Sorry, I meant protocols using UDP, not UDP itself.

Gary

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