About UDP and IP
IP stands for Internet Protocol. The main characteristic of IP is that it is not a reliable protocol by nature. IP encapsulates the data that travels in a TCP/IP network because it is responsible for delivering packets from the source host to the destination host according to the IP addresses. IP has to find an addressing method to effectively send the packet to its destination. Although there exist dedicated devices called routers that perform IP routing, every TCP/IP device has to perform some basic routing.
UDP (short for User Datagram Protocol) is based on IP, which means that it is also unreliable. Generally speaking, UDP is simpler than TCP mainly because UDP is not reliable by design. As a result, UDP messages can ...
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