Re: UDP max packet size
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:
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> 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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