I was under the impression that the payload capacity was 65535
bytes. And if it were true that the headers steal capacity, then why
can Solaris 2.5.1 send a full 65535 byte packet?
> Packets which exceed the maximum size go to the big bit bucket in
> the sky. RIP. This is a problem for programmes which "know" that
> they can send 65535 byte packets over UDP.
>
> Programs pushing such large UDP frames over ethernet don't "know" very
> much IMHO....
Full duplex switched EtherNet and IP over ATM (CLIP). Works fine, as
long as you don't transmit at a greater rate than the link can handle
(which is easy enough to arrange). Much better than TCP for this
application, as the occasional lost packet doesn't matter.
Regards,
Richard....
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