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- Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!FTP.COM!backman
- From: backman@FTP.COM (Larry Backman)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Maximum UDP packet size
- Message-ID: <9207291321.AA04552@ftp.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 13:21:20 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The Internet
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- >> Hi,
- >> We have a system that is built on FTP software's PCTCP development kit
- >> that uses UDP. Our problem is that we need to send packets larger than
- >> the (apparent) 1400 byte limit for UDP packets under FTP's implementation.
- >> So I have a couple of questions:
- >> * Does anyone know of a way to up this limit (FTP tech support says no)
- >> * Does anyone know of a library similar to FTP's that would permit us
- >> to have larger UDP packets?
- >> * Could we use some other network call to get packets that can be larger
- >> than this ?
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- The answer to all of your questions is no for the current time; this applies
- to both the 2.05 and 2.1 releases. On the positive side however; we
- know the problem, have made changes internally, and will be supplying
- support of larger than MTU sized UDP datagrams in future releases.
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- Larry Backman
- FTP Software
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