Communication Basics
This lesson brushes up on communication basics and discusses how failures are commonplace in real-world systems.
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The central tenet of modern networking is that communication is fundamentally unreliable. Whether in the wide-area Internet, or a local-area high-speed network such as Infiniband, packets are regularly lost, corrupted, or otherwise do not reach their destination.
Causes of packet loss or corruption
There are a multitude of causes ...