Re: Maximum no of bytes Ethernet can transfer at a time ??

[Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 05:49:23AM +0000, Ajit wrote:
> Neil Horman <nhorman <at> tuxdriver.com> writes:
> 
> 
> hii Neil,
> 
> I am not using the transport layer neither the Network layer. I have written a
> small protocol which work of a LAN without a router. So ideally there is no need
> of the network layer (I am using physical address for the transfer). 
> 
You may not be using the trasport layer, but you are still using IP, if you're
using SOCK_RAW sockets as you indicated.
> I have defined a filed called as "offset" and another one called as "id".
> Whenever you send a file, it is divided into various frames depending upon the
> size of the file and send with the same "id" and an offset incremented by 1.
> 
> As you said the firewall issues. I don't think that is the problem because I am
> sending the file to myself, but , on eth0 rather than lo, because send on lo
> wont give the expected results.
> 
Why not?

> If you still want some explanation then please ask me.
> 
Can you just post a link to the code?
Neil

> Thank you. 
> 
> 
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