[p2p-hackers] MTU in the real world

[John Casey]

OK. so we can also surmize from this that if we want to send a large
chunk of data that we are better off using TCP ?? and to only use UDP
for small messages ??

On 6/1/05, walter harms <wharms at bfs.de> wrote:
> 
> i had problems with firewalls (at least once) with MTU 1500 and larger.
> obscure features (like ching mtu) are not good tested and can cause
> problems in strange places. a veriation would be to change the mtu with
> every packet an see what happens. so you can optimise for every connection.