drb with udp

[Ara.T.Howard]

can someone give me a baby example of using drb with udp? i'm wondering if
udp may be the way out of the ssh tunnel hell i'm in now...

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[Dan Janowski]

Warning: udp is not reliable. You may be aware of this, but for
something like drb, it can be a disaster if a reliable negotiation
protocol is not built into the way drb uses udp. Even on local
networks, udp packets can go bye-bye.

On the plus side, udp is really fast, fixed length- a real datagram
instead of a stream.

Missed your ssh tunnel hell. Done a lot of that, but with relative
success.

Dan