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- From: mat@phx.mcd.mot.com (Mat Cucuzella)
- Subject: Re: NFS packet size
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.231852.22129@phx.mcd.mot.com>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:18:52 GMT
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- In article <C01s5x.5Bn@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
- >schittel@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (Christoph Schittel) writes:
- >}What is the maximum value for the "rsize" and "wsize" options
- >}to make an NFS datagram fit completely into one ethernet packet
- >}(max. 1500 byte)?
- >
- > 1024
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- An Ethernet frame size is 1514. Subtracting Ethernet header (6+6+2), IP
- header (20) and UDP header (20), that leaves 1460. I'm not sure if RPC
- headers have to be included in this, but I believe 1460 or slightly
- less will still keep everything in one Enet packet.
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- Mat oneT Cucuzella
- mat@phx.mcd.mot.com
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