Actually, if your application uses UDP then it is most likely designed to tolerate some packet loss. That is the whole point of UDP. With TCP you get handshakes, checksums, acknowledgements, but you pay for it with some overhead and sacrificing some speed. With UDP you get none of that, instead you get a fast protocol with low overhead. At the same time your client program sends it's packets and doesn't care if they get there or not.

Perhaps you need to rethink your strategy regarding this UDP application. Dropping some packets may not be so bad in the long run. Or what about rewriting the socket code in C so it can suck down the packets faster?

Hope this gives you some ideas.

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