Re: Design Issue: Frame Size Items

In this case it's not arbitrary at all, that's what's currently
written in the spec. At this point I'm just putting a stake in the
ground, there's plenty of time to fine tune it.

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message <CABP7Rbe+N+JEesvsV4EeQnc-7YSyiUmp2_46cD7znAA9OcNTZQ@mail.gmail.com>
> , James M Snell writes:
>
>>Proposal: Let's define that 8192+8 is the default MAX_FRAME size.
>
> 8192 is a pretty arbitrary choice, wouldn't it make sense to do a
> bit of math on typical MTU's and TCP/IP header sizes and see if
> any numbers work out more optimal ?
>
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Received on Wednesday, 8 May 2013 06:46:55 UTC