RE: [GD-General] UDP questions

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

> calling recv for tcp will give you a certain amount of data.  
> it doesn't necessarily correspond to any sort of packet.  
> Remember, tcp is a stream protocol, so it doesn't understand 
> datagrams.

Ah-ha!  Okay, duh -- I've never actually even considered using TCP, so
that's where the confusion comes from.  So his tutorial was, in fact,
correct, it was just the context (TCP) that was confusing me.

> the protocol verifies that CRCs match for the packet.  That's 
> about it. Application protocols should verify their own CRCs 
> to make sure the packet is legitimate.

Define "legitimate"?

Brian