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		ASK HN: How does mosh shell use UDP but provide reliability like TCP? (mosh.org)
		3 points by sabya on Sept 17, 2016 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

dalke on Sept 17, 2016 [–]

They wrote a paper about it for Usenix, at https://mosh.org/mosh-paper.pdf .

In general, it's always possible to put your own reliability layer on top of UDP. Other protocols do it too. g, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Pr...

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