[freenet-dev] Packet size proposal

[Matthew Toseland]

On Monday 10 March 2008 22:21, Michael Rogers wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately we have no choice because of the braindead way the internet has 
evolved in recent years.
> 
> > 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
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