Following my last post in which I worked through various definitions of reliability in networking, it’s time in this post to look at the main protocol contenders, and examine how they measure up to those definitions. Let’s recap quickly with a list. Reliability can mean… Soft delivery guarantees. Hard delivery guarantees. Hard delivery guarantees along the entire path. (This wasn’t mentioned last time, but we’ll get to it.) Strict ordering of packets. (This was mentioned implicitly ...
