On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 10:37 PM, Scott Raney wrote:
>> Is this this way because of some underlying API (like maybe a limit in >> BerkeleySockets, or some such API that Meta is using). > > The UDP proptocol specification only guarantees up to a maximum size > of 576 bytes. Try to send anything larger than that and it might work > on some systems but not others. I believe this is the IP Packet limit. It is intended to allow a data size of 512 bytes under worse-case IP header conditions. In that case, the limit for UDP data is 504 bytes. My experience is primarily in controlled situations so I don't run across this, but I think for Internet applications, one might best follow Scott's advice. Dar Scott _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
