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of the socket? Does doing a connect() call affect the receive behaviour?
Answer:
Yes, in two ways. First, only datagrams from your "connected peer" are returned. All others arriving at your port are not delivered to you.
But most importantly, a UDP socket must be connected to receive ICMP errors.
But most importantly, a UDP socket must be connected to receive ICMP errors.
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