• Thunderwolf@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    UDP by itself has no state management, but some protocols will do state management at higher levels while using UDP as the transport

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      Yeah, because ultimately UDP is just IP with ports and a checksum added on top, you can do anything with it you can do with plain IP, including reliable transport.