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		nly on Oct 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly Offloads that to UDP is a nice way of saying "you get random packet drops determined by some router between A and B"

Nullabillity on Oct 6, 2023 [–]

That's going to happen regardless, that's just the nature of Ethernet, or even just existing in reality. TCP has to deal with the same thing. Either way the solution is the same: acks and retransmissions.

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