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by **asche** » Sat, 01 Mar 2003 02:47:10

Hi -
This may be a dumb question, but can you create a server TCP socket
and connect to it by opening a client UDP socket? I can't think of a
reason why I would ever design a (simple) program to do this, but if
you were communicating across different networks that had different
protocols defined, isn't the job of a protocal layer to examine the
incoming packet and send it to the approriate destination? Am I on
the right page here, or am I comparing apples and oranges?
I'm just trying to get a grasp on these network layers and how they
function, and trying to figure out the most efficent way to use them in
standard socketing.

thanks in advance-
Dan

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by **Barry Margoli** » Sat, 01 Mar 2003 03:58:40

>Hi -
> This may be a dumb question, but can you create a server TCP socket
> and connect to it by opening a client UDP socket?

No. They're two entirely different protocols. The only thing they have in
common is that they use IP to get their packets from one machine to the
other.

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TCP socket to UDP socket?

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