* Ethernet IP multicast maximum packet size
@ 2005-09-08 15:35 Dirk Jagdmann
2005-09-08 16:40 ` Alan Cox
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From: Dirk Jagdmann @ 2005-09-08 15:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Hello developers,
I googled around all day, but did not find any satisfying answer. Is
there a maximum packet size when I use IP multicasting in a local
ethernet LAN? Or more precisely, does the multicast code in Linux
handle an IP fragmentation/defragmentation of a 63K UDP multicast
datagram, which is transmitted over an 1500bytes MTU ethernet? Or
should I stay on the safe edge and don't construct datagrams > 1500 so
I'll avoid fragmentation?
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* Re: Ethernet IP multicast maximum packet size
2005-09-08 15:35 Ethernet IP multicast maximum packet size Dirk Jagdmann
@ 2005-09-08 16:40 ` Alan Cox
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From: Alan Cox @ 2005-09-08 16:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jagdmann; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Iau, 2005-09-08 at 17:35 +0200, Dirk Jagdmann wrote:
> Hello developers,
>
> I googled around all day, but did not find any satisfying answer. Is
> there a maximum packet size when I use IP multicasting in a local
> ethernet LAN? Or more precisely, does the multicast code in Linux
> handle an IP fragmentation/defragmentation of a 63K UDP multicast
> datagram, which is transmitted over an 1500bytes MTU ethernet? Or
> should I stay on the safe edge and don't construct datagrams > 1500 so
> I'll avoid fragmentation?
It is considered good practice to keep local multicast within local MTU.
For remote multicast 576 byte total frames used to be recommended by
some people but MTU discovery and multicast is a real can of worms. (A
google for "multicast implosion" should find some useful material on the
question of discovery and multicast)
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