Re: how to increase the MaxMsgSize to 5000

Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Organization Sparta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:56:46 -0700 (PDT), Malathi Panyam <[email protected]> said:

MP> After digging through the agent code, I figured out that we set the SNMP_MAX_MSG_SIZE to 1472 in snmp_api.h. 

MP> Can we increase this size? is it advisable?

The biggest problems with maximum messages sizes is that for UDP you
begin to fragment the packets, which can cause problems in networks
where any packet loss exists.  If you have a very reliable network it's
probably ok to increase the above size.
-- 
Wes Hardaker
Cobham Analytic Solutions

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