What's the difference between TCP and UDP? When a packet is lost, what happens under each one?
TCP is a reliable stream with connection, ordering, and retransmission guarantees; UDP is datagrams with no guarantees. On loss, TCP holds back later data until the retransmit arrives, while UDP just moves on to the next packet.
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