----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Combee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: TCP buffer size?

> Jeremy, are you sure you want the TCP/IP buffer size, or the minimum UDP
> buffer size?  For UDP, I wouldn't go over the Ethernet frame size of 1536
> bytes, as anything larger could easily be fragmented between your server
> and whatever wireless system communicated to the device.
>
> Also, the NetLib implementation varies considerably from device to
> device.  The original NetLib used in Palm OS 4.x and earlier is closely
> tied to PPP, while OS 5 provided a new implementation that's a true stack
> architecture.  Palm OS Cobalt uses another implementation that's different
> from OS 5.
>
>
> -- Ben Combee, DTS technical lead, PalmSource, Inc.
>     Read "Combee on Palm OS" at http://palmos.combee.net/

We're definitely using TCP, but since we use SPT 1842s, we can't do any
better than OS 4.0. I'm not well-versed in networking, but I'll do some
research on PPP so that maybe I can understand this a little better. Thanks
for the help!

Jeremy Neal Kelly
Software Engineer
Peapod



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