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Re: Serious bug identified in SmartDashboard/NetworkTables -- robot hangs

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I'm surprised that it affects UDP traffic through.
The subject of this thread, NetworkTables, does not use UDP. It uses TCP.

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Again, this shouldn't be a problem with next year's control system thankfully.
Not true. This particular NetworkTables bug can be duplicated on Linux also -- though it is a lot harder, because the default send buffers are a lot bigger on a PC.

The real ultimate solution is rewriting NetworkTables for C++.
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