Chapter 22. Advanced UDP Sockets
Introduction
This chapter is a collection of various topics that affect applications using UDP sockets. First is determining the destination address of a UDP datagram and the interface on which the datagram was received, because a socket bound to a UDP port and the wildcard address can receive unicast, broadcast, and multicast datagrams on any interface.
TCP is a byte-stream protocol and it uses a sliding window, so there is no such thing as a record boundary or allowing the sender to overrun the receiver with data. With UDP, however, each input operation corresponds to a UDP datagram (a record), so a problem arises of what happens when the received datagram is larger than the application’s input buffer.
UDP is unreliable ...
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