Re: How do i avoid packet segmentation?
- From: "Nils O. Selåsdal" <NOS@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:29:16 +0200
Bernhard Agthe wrote:
Hi,It also depends on what he means by segmentation. If it's the IP
I'm writing a program that sends 1500 bytes of data at once, from the
client to the server. However, the packet is broken down into 3
different segments of 500 each before getting to the server. This is
detrimental to the program i'm writing as I need the server to receive
the entire 1500 bytes at once. How do I avoid this segmentation. Is it
a linux setting which I can change or is it a TCP setting? either way,
what can I do? I'm sending the packets using the C send() function.
I thought that There is something relation on MTU(Maximum Transfer
Unit)
The network may do segmentation at any point during transmission - you cannot rely on any given MTU. The fact that you have three segments of 500B each indicates you have a MTU of 500B somewhere along the path - if you go for backbone networks you'll get segments of 56B or so - which will be put into a single 500B package on the backbone exit point. But usually fragmentation is transparent to the user and fragmented packages get reassembled?
packets that's segmented, it does not matter - they're automatically
reassembled.
If it's TCP breaking up the data from the user, 1 send() results
in many mackets or vice versa - that's how TCP works, it tries to
figure out how big and when it makes sense to send data.
.
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