[freenet-dev] Packet size proposal

[Michael Rogers]

Matthew Toseland wrote:
> Only that it probably wouldn't have solved this specific problem. There is 
> endless literature on TCP and I at least don't have time to keep up with it, 
> and a wide range of implementations exist.

But that's my whole point - we shouldn't get involved in transport layer 
design, we should just use what's out there.

> TCP does it the same way a zillion other protocols do, by sending packets with 
> dont-fragment set. Which we can't do in java. Well maybe we can, but it means 
> even more JNI code. Also, does it require root/raw sockets?

On Linux you can use setsockopt(), I'm not sure about other platforms.

Cheers,
Michael