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Re: [mina] Is UDP connectionless or stateless?

by Maarten Bosteels-6 :: Rate this Message:

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Trustin Lee wrote:

> I found Wikipedia says it is both stateless and connectionless in the
> viewpoint of transport layer.
>
> Connectionless is too long to type.  Are we OK just to go with stateless?
>
> Trustin
>
If you need to call it anything else than UDP, I would go for
"connectionless"
since the protocol implemented on top of UDP can certainly be stateful
(as someone already pointed out)

http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/UDP also uses
"connectionless"

Maarten

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