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Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 20:38:38 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: want opinions on possible glitch in 2.4 network error reporting
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   From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
   Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 21:21:09 -0700
   
   Alan Cox wrote:
   
   > UDP is not flow controlled.
   
   If it makes it through sendto, where can it be dropped before it
   hits the wire?

If the packet ends up being fragmented on the way out and the socket
cannot take on the allocation against it's buffer space.
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