Broadcast like UDP with the reliability of TCP

Question

I\'m working on a .net solution that is run completely inside a single network. When users make a change to the system, I want to launch an announcement and have everyone else h

Answer 1

I think the most irritating feature of TCP in these scenarios is the ability/way of sorting incoming packets to their original order - the concept of a stream. You cannot read a byte until the byte before it arrived.

If you can live without it, you have your chance to have your protocol, fast and reliable, but not for ordering of packets! It's simply impossible to manage both of them, because you cannot order your bytes until you receive an other copy of a lost packet, that's the main tradeoff.