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Re: UDP max packet size
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Re: UDP max packet size


  • Subject: Re: UDP max packet size
  • From: james woodyatt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:31:23 -0800

On Nov 16, 2010, at 01:22, Quinn The Eskimo! wrote:
>
> Virtually all commonly-used link layers support a maximum packet size of 1500 bytes, or just under that (curse you PPPoE and your 1492 byte MTU!)

Don't forget the horror of other encapsulated links, e.g. PPTP and L2TP/IPsec.  Path MTU discovery on IPv4 is a mess.  The smallest IPv4 path MTU I've seen in the wild is 1440.


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james woodyatt <email@hidden>
member of technical staff, communications engineering


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 >UDP max packet size (From: Jonathon Kuo <email@hidden>)
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