"Silvia" <silvia@correo.com> wrote in message
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> We are using directly Winsock API calls.
>
> We are seeing the UDP datagrams with a counter in the reception.
> As we know how many datagrams are sent, we see that if we don't
> process anything the counter tells us all the datagrams have been
> received. If we process something we see a lot of them have been lost.
How are you receiving the packets to begin with? How are you managing the
counter? How are you determining that exactly?
Again, I ask that you please show your actual code.
> We are using Ethereal as well to see the datagrams received, and in
> any case all the UDP datagrams have reached the PC.
Reaching the PC is not the same as reaching the actual socket endpoint.
Data can reach a PC and be rejected by the OS before reaching an
application.
> We know UDP does not guarantee delivery, but we don't understand
> why when we don't process all the datagrams have been received, and
> when we are processing them a lot of them are lost.
You keep saying "process". What EXACTLY are you processing?
Gambit
