another networking poll: how confident do you feel that you understand how UDP works?

also i’m curious: how would you say UDP works? especially interested in answers from people who said they're unsure / confused

(as usual please no arguing or telling other people they're wrong, I'm just curious about people's different impressions)

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Hmm... it's hard to answer this question, because it's hard to tell what level I should assume.

If I assume IP will unreliably transport packets to another host, UDP just wraps data together with a source and destination port numbers, and creates a convention on how to address a response packet.

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