[p2p-hackers] MTU in the real world

[Will Morton]

On 1 Jun 2005, at 12:03, Justin Cormack wrote:

>
> The best (perhaps only sensible) situation for using UDP is where  
> your messages match UDP ones, ie they are small (say 1k payload  
> plus some headers) and it doesnt matter if some are lost (ie you  
> dont even need retry - eg if using error correcting codes or  
> whatever). If you want to use UDP, design your protocol around this  
> (or vice versa). Otherwise you will just be reinventing TCP in UDP.
>

     As previously discussed here, you may well want to do exactly  
this in order to do NAT penetration.

     W
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