[p2p-hackers] Optimal UDP Message size for data streaming...

[Saikat Guha]

On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 17:46 -0800, Daniel Stutzbach wrote:
> Well, the problem is that "the lowest common denominator" is not well
> defined.  There may be one guy somewhere who is still using a SLIP
> link with a 256-byte MTU.  If you use that as your baseline, all your
> other users are going to take a performance hit.


Well, technically, the minimum MTU is specified to be 576 in the RFC's.
So if you really really need a lowest common denominator, there is one.
But your argument stands that using any sort of lower bound will cause a
performance hit.

-- 
Saikat
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