> It is not a very good idea to assume any larger than 512, unless you
> have some kind of MTU discovery mechanism, or you are sure the path is
> local (1400-something bytes is okay over Ethernet, etc.).  IP will
> fragment and reassemble larger datagrams, but that is fairly
> undesirable.

True, but actually many implimentations assume 1500 as that is
the maximum xmit size for ethernet. 512 is sometimes used on
dialup and lossy lines where reliability is degraded.

Keep in mind the smaller you make each packet, the lower
your throughput due to overhead.

~ Signal 11

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