Re: UDP bugs

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 20:23:26 +0000

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On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 02:32:23PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> If the limit of 65507 Richard quoted is right then there is a off-by-one
> bug somewhere - the limit should be 65508 for UDP (65536 - 20 bytes ip header
> - - 8 bytes UDP header) and 65516 for RAW sockets (and 65536 when IP_HDRINCL
> is set). If the input limit is smaller this is a bug too.

AFAIK, the IP packet size limit is 65535 not 65536.

-- Jamie

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