Re: TCP question

"fniles" <fniles@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am using TCP control in VB6. I am sending a lot of messages every
milli seconds.
Sometimes (not very often) the messages received will be out of
order, and they are NOT received one after another. In between the
message, there are other messages.
Like the following example:

ABC,140425,140450,139800,LAST|
39850,,LAST| -->> incomplete and out of order, it should be after
the message below
ABC,140415,140440,139700,,LAST|
ABC,140430,140455,139815,,LAST|
ABC,140445,140470,139820,,LAST|
ABC,140425,140450,1 -->> incomplete and out of order, it should be
before the message above

Message "ABC,140425,140450,1" should appear before and be together
with "40125,,LAST| "
So, it should be "ABC,140425,140450,139850,,LAST|".

Is this how TCP works ?

No, TCP guarantees that the data is received in the order it is sent. Show
the code you have for receiving the packets

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