Re: UDP questions

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From: W. Richard Stevens
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 19:44

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>From what I can tell about Internet Domain UDP, a maximum message size of
>between 8k and 9000 bytes seems to hold (on Sun OS).

You can change this, if both the sender and receiver set their
socket buffer sizes (SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF).  ~9k just happens
to be the default because that's what NFS needs if you use its
default 8k rsize and wsize.

	Rich Stevens  (rstevens@noao.edu)

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