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

Sun Feb 26 02:59:03 UTC 2006

On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 18:17 -0800, Daniel Stutzbach wrote:
> 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).

Ah. Indeed. You're right.

Interestingly, RFC 1122 seems to imply that "all networks in the
Internet currently support an MTU of 576 or greater" and that it is
strongly recommended (but not "RECOMMENDED"); regardless the official
MTU of 68 still stands.

cheers,
-- 
Saikat
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