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readmodifywritetoday at 3:35 PM1 replyview on HN

If you were using TCP, then this is absolutely normal and expected behavior. It is a stream protocol, not packet/message based.


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josefxtoday at 4:25 PM

At the application layer you would not see the reordered bytes. However on the network you have IP beneath both UDP and TCP and network hardware is normally free to slice and reorder those IP packages however it wants.

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