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TCP is a back & forth between two hosts and thus cant do "shouting blindly into the network" things. That rules out local discovery and media broadcast. Packag
by blueflow 2y ago
TCP is a back & forth between two hosts and thus cant do "shouting blindly into the network" things. That rules out local discovery and media broadcast.
Package encapsulation is bad over TCP because if the encapsulated data is TCP itself, you have congestion control twice. On congested networks, this results in extra slowdowns that can make the connection unusable.