> but it doesn't seem that UDP drops actually occur on a routine basis anywhere.
I have seen code that didn't even handle out of order delivery work well for over a decade in local networks. Even when that broke down it turned out that IP package fragmentation just triggers a slow path in smart switches, so if your packages fit into the networks MTU (with some bytes to spare for VLAN tagging) you still might be able to avoid the problem.
I have seen code that didn't even handle out of order delivery work well for over a decade in local networks. Even when that broke down it turned out that IP package fragmentation just triggers a slow path in smart switches, so if your packages fit into the networks MTU (with some bytes to spare for VLAN tagging) you still might be able to avoid the problem.