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Altera_Forum
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22 years ago

Missing UDP packet in NIOS II

I have modified the NIOS II telnet demo, added a UDP socket, and am having trouble with a lost UDP packet. The demo was modified in the following simple manner. The data transfer TCP socket is...
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22 years ago

I can't comment with regards to the demo, but UDP is not a "guaranteed" protocol like TCP. As far as I know, it's more than likely that any collision on your network could cause this to happen, it's up to your application to handle missing packets - this is the main reason that I've only ever used TCP (apart from UDP broadcast messages).

Adrian