Remember, though, that RFC 3261 is talking about Path MTU, rather than Link 
MTU, so the MTU in question could be lower than 1500 even if the first hop is 
over Ethernet.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael
Cohen
Sent: 10 April 2006 16:54
To: 'Kishore Sowdi'; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Sip-implementors] sip msg length ......


> Hi ,
> _____________________________________________________________________
> 
>     rfc 3261 , section 18.1.1 says
> 
>     "If a request is within 200 bytes of the path MTU, or if it is larger
> than 1300 bytes and the path MTU is unknown, the request MUST be sent
> using an RFC 2914 [43] congestion controlled transport protocol, such as
> TCP".
> 
>     My interpretation of the above condition
> 
>     If ( (SIP msg len < 200 ) || ( SIP msg len > 1300 ) )
>           send over TCP.

For messages smaller than 200, you probably want to use UDP.

Here's my interepretation of rfc 3261 , section 18.1.1:

If ( (MTU_is_known && (SIP_msg_len < MTU - 200) ) ||
     (!MTU_is_known) && (SIP_msg_len < 1300) )
{
        send over TCP
}

For more on the MTU (maximum transmission unit) see RFC-1191
The MTU for Ethernet is 1500.



> 
>    Is my interpretation correct ? .
> _____________________________________________________________________
> 
> thanks & regards,
>     Kishore sowdi.
> 
> 
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