Re: UDP practical limits

J C Lawrence <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.devel.general
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On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:12:48 -0700 
Colin Fahey <[email protected]> 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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