Re: Seeing large amounts of data on udp recv-q, only sending 1 byte of data

On May 24, 1:38 pm, "ssuss...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <s...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi all,

I have 2 simple little apps, running on 2 different dell 1950's both
running 2.6.18 debian linux kernel. The first app sends a user defined
size of data on a udp socket and the other app recvs it. The strange
thing I am seeing is that on the receive side if I comment out the
actual recvfrom and let that 1 packet sit in the recv-q buffer the
netstat screen shows a total of 272 bytes on the queue. When I
reenable the recvfrom and dump how much data i received from the call
it matches what I requested to be sent. I also put up a sniffer on the
recv side and the udp packet there had just the data I sent. So where
is this extra data coming from? Has anyone else seen anything like
this before that might have a clue for me.

The extra data is the source of the payload. When you call 'recvfrom',
you get more than just the payload, you get the source IP, source
port, and so on. More than one byte of the receive buffer is needed to
contain this datagram even though it only contains one byte of data.

DS

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