{
 "id": "no-transport-s-native-success-signal-can-see",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "No transport's native success signal can see a peer whose application has died while its radio still answers",
 "symptom": "With the peer's radio alive and associated but its application deinitialised or hung, every transport reports unbroken success indefinitely. ESP-NOW unicast: 7,775 consecutive ESP_NOW_SEND_SUCCESS. ESP-NOW broadcast: 8,467 consecutive, with zero failures under any condition ever tested. BLE extended advertising: 24,268 consecutive data-set completions. TCP recv() EOF: never fired, in 4 of 4 trials. UDP endPacket(): 7,237 consecutive successes into a deaf application at unchanged cost.",
 "hw": [
  "esp32-s3"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "esp-idf",
  "arduino-esp32",
  "esp-now",
  "wifi",
  "ble"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64",
  "debian-13"
 ],
 "intent": "Choosing a failure detector for a multi-hop relay whose middle node may hang",
 "date": "2026-08-28",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "check",
  "body"
 ],
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}