Hi! On Don, 2013-06-13 at 11:40 +0300, Victor Buciuc wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Pietro Paolini <pulsarpietro@xxxxxxx>wrote: [....] > > I am trying to perform a simple but a little tricky task: I have to > > understand the maximum payload size of an UDP packet in order to avoid > > fragmentation of that. > > > > Some suggestions ? The technical term for this is "path mtu discovery". [....] > You should totally google it. There's a lot of stuff on what you're looking > for, like: > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.networking/2004-02/0873.html ... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_MTU_discovery for starters. If that makes any sense if there is not just exactly one path (but potentially many), is a different question ...... Bernd -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx LUGA : http://www.luga.at _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies