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What would happen if we didn't use TCP or UDP?


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Then the requests start their descent through the network stack, getting wrapped, encoded, and addressed at each layer, until all that’s left is a stream of bits flying into the void It's hard to extrapolate conclusions from experimentation with all these moving parts—so I thought of the following: To begin, I'll send the packets to my own machine, this guarantees that any results are solely due to my OS's behaviour A system call for the uninitiated is just a function that allows applications to request privileged resources from the OS—whether that’s opening a file, allocating memory, or, in our case, sending a packet over the network

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