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

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:01:40PM -0500, Saikat Guha wrote:
> 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.

You're thinking of the minimum datagram size the receiving IP
implementation must support *after* reassembly.

The official minimum MTU is a measly 68 bytes (RFC 1191, page 17).

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Daniel Stutzbach                           Computer Science Ph.D Student
http://www.barsoom.org/~agthorr                     University of Oregon