On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:20:06 -0500, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:04 PM 7/29/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > [TCP] splits traffic to 'segments' using its own logic ... >> >> Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer to use a >> transmit segment size of, say, 640 bytes -- so that the peer will >> never try to send a packet larger than that? >> >> I'm trying to get around a network packet-size problem. In case it >> matters, the other end is SunOS 4.1.1 on a sun3, and I've been unable >> to find a way to limit its packet size directly. > > Just as an FYI, you might want to do: > man setsockopt > ro > man getsockopt > > Each tcp conversation can have it's own size set along with a bunch of > other params.
Good point. The TCP_MAXSEG can reduce the maximum segment size for a single TCP connection to something smaller than the interface MTU :) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
