Linux Large Datagram Problem

[Derek Atkins]

Kevin Zablonski <kzablonski at ll.mit.edu> writes:

> Sorry, I forgot to add the tested limits:
>
> Suse SLES 8                                   51793 bytes
> Redhat 7.2                                       41433 bytes
> Redhat 9.0                                       41433 bytes
> Fedora Core 1                                 41433 bytes
> Redhat Enterprise AS V. 3             52002 bytes
>
> (Normal)
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Fedora Core 2                                 65535 bytes
> Slackware 10.1                               65535 bytes

These latter two are to be expected; 65535 is the max size of
a UDP Packet.  As for why the former are failing, it's quite
possible that there's a bug in Linux 2.4.  Unlikely, but
possible.

-derek
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