Re: PATCH Re: udp weirdness

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Chris Friesen wrote:

> to be silently dropped by the kernel because userspace is sending faster
> than they can get onto the wire during that tight loop.
>

So what happens when you find packets being dropped?
AFAIK, a dropped voice packet is as good as dead whether local or remote.

> Okay, so with IP_RECVERR set the case that Eric saw will not happen?  I
> mean that sendto() will return with -1 and errno set to ENOBUFS?

yes

cheers,
jamal