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TCP is harder than it looks (snellman.net)
21 points by luu on Feb 20, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I think TCP is pretty hard. I've failed 3 times now trying to write an implementation.

> If all you want to do is to e.g. load the frontpage of Google, writing a TCP stack can be a one afternoon hack.

So that hurts.


From my experience, a TCP implementation can look ok on the surface but still be horrible. Retransmission covers up a lot of problems.




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