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User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

A connectionless and therefore inherently unreliable data protocol (RFC 768) where data is sent but not acknowledged. No guarantee of delivery is defined in the UDP protocol; no attempt to recover from data loss is performed. See also IP family.

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