[PD] exact meaning of netsend outlet

Peter Plessas plessas at mur.at
Sat Aug 14 19:29:28 CEST 2010


Perfect. thank you Martin!
P.

On 08/14/2010 04:50 PM, Martin Peach wrote:
> On 2010-08-14 03:55, Peter Plessas wrote:
> 
>> please excuse me, I mixed things up when asking. I wanted to know what
>> the outlet of netSEND really indicates. Ups, sorry!
>>
>> So rephrased:
>>
>> Does it indicate whether Pd was able to open a port through the OS?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>>
>> Does it indicate whether a (TCP) packet actually arrived at the receiver?
>>
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Does it indicate whether the connection is "alive" (whatever that means)?
>>
> 
> No. It only changes if you try to send a message and it fails. If the
> other end drops the connection you won't get notified until you attempt
> to send something. It could take seconds or minutes before the OS
> decides the message didn't get through.
> 
> Martin



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