Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!GYRE.UMD.EDU!chris From: chris@GYRE.UMD.EDU (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: UDP max datagram size ? Message-ID: <8809221458.AA12621@gyre.umd.edu> Date: 22 Sep 88 14:58:57 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 6 4.3BSD has a default size limit of 2048 bytes, but this can be changed with a `setsockopt' call. Rwhod packets are limited not by this size, but by the Ethernet MTU, as 4BSD will not fragment a UDP broadcast packet (unless you tweak your kernel). Chris