On 08/30/2016 10:40 PM, Sherry Yanmeng Tang (yanmtang) wrote: > When kerberos are working on the tcp connection, it always send the message > length of kerberos in one tcp message, and then send the following kerberos > packet in another one or more messages. > I wonder why not send the message length of the kerberos together with the > real message body. Eg, even the packet is only 287 Bytes(tcp payload length), > we need to send the 4 Bytes first, then send 283 Bytes.
We do send the length and message together, using writev()(sendto_kdc.c:1099). The code you pointed to at line 652 is just setting up the iovs for a later call to writev(). ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
