To my best understanding TCP and UDP are on top of IP. IP is a datagram like
packet distribution scheme, that means that either you use UDP or TCP your
are requesting link layer to send a sequence of individual datagrams (with
no relationship between previous or future packets -at the link layer-).
However it is the TCP layer the one that it is aware of conserving conexions
state.
Therefore, the main hardware resource I see different from using TCP or UDP
is main memory and CPU cycles. Are you talking about this or do you mean
another kind of hardware changes?
Regards,
Miguel Sanchez
Universidad Politenica de Valencia (Spain)
>
> In an adhoc network, suppose that the hardware required to
> deliver a single packet, which has no relationship to past or
> future packets, (ex., UDP) is less than the hardware needed to
> support a connection based protocol (such as TCP). Would that
> influence your position; if so, how?
>
> Thanks,
> Darrell Shane
> dshane@qual-pro.com
>
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