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Which protection does UDP itself not guarantee?

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  1. A destination port field
  2. Delivery and duplicate protection
  3. A datagram length field

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References

  1. RFC 768: User Datagram Protocol www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc768.html Checked 2026-10-10.

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