On Jan 13, 10:35 am, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: > K-man wrote: > > Hi, > > I am sending data using the socket interface in python, but I want > > to know how big the ethernet packet size is (in bytes). I didn't > > really see a way using the socket library of how to do this. Any > > suggestions? > > There is no way to know what size Ethernet packets will result from > specific traffic. Or do you want to know the MTU size (largest possible > Ethernet packet size)? This shouldn't really matter, since large TCP > messages will be split into a sequence of IP datagrams, and large IP > datagrams will be automatically fragmented and then reassembled at the > other end. > > Is there a specific reason this is important to you? > > regards > Steve > -- > Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 > Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/
I am trying to determine the actual network link speed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
