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Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 02:10:49 -0700
To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
From: Colin Percival <cperciva@sfu.ca>
Subject: Re: FW: Small TCP packets == very large overhead == DoS?
Cc: dr@kyx.net (Dragos Ruiu), silby@silby.com (Mike Silbersack),
	cjclark@alum.mit.edu, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed),
	Yonatan@xpert.com (Yonatan Bokovza),
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At 06:55 PM 7/9/2001 +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
>In some mail from Dragos Ruiu, sie said:
> > where for some applications the representatives argued that 64 bytes was
> > too large a packetsize (this particular debate was over 32 or 64 byte 
> cells,
> > and oddly enough they agreed on 48 for no particular reason other
> > than to stop arguing :-).
>
>Err, wasn't the result 53 ?

   I believe the argument was over the amount of data per cell, not the 
total cell size; with 53 byte cells there are 5 bytes of header and 48 
bytes of data.

   But in any case... shouldn't this be on -net?  I think the question of 
security was put to rest several emails ago.

Colin Percival


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