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- From: ddl@burrhus.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Maximum UDP packet size
- Keywords: UDP PCTCP packet size
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.033602.7272@burrhus.harvard.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 03:36:02 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.214507.5122@cactus.org> <1992Jul29.025917.1452@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
- Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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- In article <1992Jul29.025917.1452@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, beame@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Beame) writes:
- | FTP's PCTCP is unable to IP fragment packets bigger than the network
- | mss (~1400 over ethernet). Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd. TCP-IP contains
- | an small PCTCP emulator which allows programs written for FTP's software
- | library to run over BW-TCP/IP. Since BW-TCP supports fragmentation up to
- | ~16K, your program MIGHT run without modification over our TCP and use large
- | UDP packets.
-
- Our TCP/2-DOS also includes an INT61 emulator and supports
- larger-than-MTU IP packet sizes, so you have two possibilities of
- running without modification. (Odds are looking up :) For further
- info, contact Essex Systems (508) 532-5511 or send email.
-
- Dan Lanciani
- ddl@harvard.*
-