Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:20:06 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com, keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting the other end's TCP segment size Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080730155021.024dd828@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <488fe865.x7NyNic2A5pcZPCL%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <488fe865.x7NyNic2A5pcZPCL%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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At 11:04 PM 7/29/2008, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > [TCP] splits traffic to 'segments' using its own logic ... > >Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer >to use a transmit segment size of, say, 640 bytes -- so that >the peer will never try to send a packet larger than that? > >I'm trying to get around a network packet-size problem. >In case it matters, the other end is SunOS 4.1.1 on a sun3, and >I've been unable to find a way to limit its packet size directly. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- Just as an FYI, you might want to do: man setsockopt ro man getsockopt Each tcp conversation can have it's own size set along with a bunch of other params. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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