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Date:      Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:59:36 -0800
From:      Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Max UDP packet size + Java: weirdness
Message-ID:  <560f92641002091259q4f4c0e3aq4c4b4696895c1f73@mail.gmail.com>
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> You've encountered:
>
> % sysctl net.inet.udp.maxdgram
> net.inet.udp.maxdgram: 9216
>
> However, increasing it will guarantee that you will exceed even normal jumbo frame size and thus depend upon IP fragmentation / reassembly for the traffic.  I don't consider that to be a good idea, but it might be OK for local traffic....

Wow thanks.  So it normally fits in 1 IP packet?  (What about the MTU
being like 1500 or something?)  What's wrong with fragmentation?  Any
links to explain this?  This isn't local traffic by the way, I will be
sending stuff between a data center in San Diego and a data center in
Chicago.



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