TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: nthelp
to: John Beckett
from: Geo
date: 2005-05-19 06:13:58
subject: Re: Crappy Windows 2000/XP UDP performance

From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:428c5a34.2637812{at}216.144.1.254...

> Interesting point. Actually, UDP just uses an underlying IP datagram to
> send its payload, so the limit is due to IP. An IP datagram can carry 64K
> bytes (including headers), so a single UDP packet can carry just less than
> 64K bytes of payload.

Are you sure it's 64K "Bytes" and not "Bits"? That
seems like kind of a huge packet.

Geo.

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5
* Origin: Barktopia BBS Site http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45)
SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 5030/786
@PATH: 379/45 1 106/2000 633/267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.