On Monday 10 March 2008 22:21, Michael Rogers wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > Only that it probably wouldn't have solved this specific problem. There is > > endless literature on TCP and I at least don't have time to keep up with it, > > and a wide range of implementations exist. > > But that's my whole point - we shouldn't get involved in transport layer > design, we should just use what's out there.
Unfortunately we have no choice because of the braindead way the internet has evolved in recent years. > > > TCP does it the same way a zillion other protocols do, by sending packets with > > dont-fragment set. Which we can't do in java. Well maybe we can, but it means > > even more JNI code. Also, does it require root/raw sockets? > > On Linux you can use setsockopt(), I'm not sure about other platforms. > > Cheers, > Michael -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080310/6504b26c/attachment.pgp>
