Re: [GD-General] UDP practical limits

[J C L. <cl...@ka...>]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:12:48 -0700 
Colin Fahey <cp...@ea...> wrote:

> (3) What is the practical limit of UDP packets going across the wild
> Internet, through dozens of routers with various policies?

I've found that (older?) routers drop/not-reassemble UDP fragments often
enough to be painful.  As such I'd suggest doing periodic MTU discovery
and keeping within that boundary.

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