Heiko Wundram wrote: > Am Mittwoch 12 April 2006 10:26 schrieb Iain King: > > Hi. I've been looking everywhere for this and can't find it, apologies > > if I'm being obtuse: How do I set the max datagram packet size? I'm > > using the socket module. It seem like it's hardcoded at 255, but I > > need it to be larger. > > The minimal size any IP-stack has to be able to handle is 512 bytes. Normally, > modern IP stacks will handle packets up to 4096 bytes and possibly larger > packets (with correct fragmentation and rejoining). But this depends on the > IP stack that's used to send and to receive the packet. > > Anyway, a maximum size of 255 bytes is certainly not true for UDP packets. > > --- Heiko.
Yep, I was just being dumb. Thanks anyway. Iain -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
