Re: Raw socket behavior
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:11:01 +0100
Dan Wilson wrote:
> Am I safe to just assume one packet per recv and use a big enough
> buffer ?
You should at least set the buffer size to
MTU == 1500 on Ethernet
See 'ifconfig' for actual size on eth0 or ...
No IP packet will (receive) or must not (send) be bigger
than the MTU (message transfer unit) size on the specific
interface.
Toni
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