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- From: art@acc.com (Art Berggreen)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.sys.mips
- Subject: Re: maximum size of UDP datagrams [ethernet]
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.172343.24479@acc.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 17:23:43 GMT
- References: <Bz2tLw.JH5@ecf.toronto.edu>
- Organization: ACC, Advanced Computer Communications
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- In article <Bz2tLw.JH5@ecf.toronto.edu> steve@ecf.toronto.edu (Steve Kotsopoulos) writes:
- >Broadcast UDP datagram cannot be fragmented, so it must fit into the
- >1500 byte data portion of an ethernet frame. After sustracting 20 bytes
- >for the IP header, and another 8 bytes for the UDP header, you are left
- >with 1472 bytes for user data. [these numbers are based on the diagrams
- >on page 208 in "UNIX Network Programming" by W. Richard Stevens]
-
- I believe that not fragmenting broadcasts is a "BSD-ism", and is not explicitly
- illegal in the IP spec. But because of this defacto rule, and that broadcasting
- fragments affects every IP station (consuming reassembly resources), it's
- probably a a good thing to avoid.
-
- Art
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