TCP over UDP

[Bruce Cran]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:05:29 -0400
Sergey Babkin <babkin at verizon.net> wrote:

> Basically, every time you use UDP, you've got to reinvent your
> own retransmission and reliability protocol. And these protocols
> are typically no good at all, as the story with NFS switching
> from UDP to TCP and improving the performance shows. At the same
> time TCP provides a very good transport control logic, so why not
> just reuse this logic in a library to solve the UDP issues once
> and for all?

Have you looked at SCTP? It may provide the features you've looking
for:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol#Motivations

-- 
Bruce Cran