setting the other end's TCP segment size

[Derek Ragona]

At 11:04 PM 7/29/2008, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > [TCP] splits traffic to 'segments' using its own logic ...
>
>Is there a simple way for a FreeBSD system to cause its peer
>to use a transmit segment size of, say, 640 bytes -- so that
>the peer will never try to send a packet larger than that?
>
>I'm trying to get around a network packet-size problem.
>In case it matters, the other end is SunOS 4.1.1 on a sun3, and
>I've been unable to find a way to limit its packet size directly.
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Just as an FYI, you might want to do:
man setsockopt
ro
man getsockopt

Each tcp conversation can have it's own size set along with a bunch of 
other params.

         -Derek


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