> -----Original Message----- > From: Darren Reed [mailto:avalonat_private] > Following on from this, it occurs to me that the problem with the > above can possibly be reproduced with TCP. How ? That thing called > "maximum segment size". The problem? Well, the first is that there > does not appear to be a minimum. The second is that it is negoiated > by the caller, not callee. Did I hear someone say "oh dear" ? <snip> > I can't see anything in the registry or MSDN which says what it > is for Windows. By experimentation, Win2000 appears to be 88, > NT 4 appears to be 1 Windows NT (at least back to 4.0) and Win2k provide a registry key setting that is generally recommended when using the system in a hostile environment - from the NT 4.0 resource kit documentation: ============================================================ EnablePMTUDiscovery REG_DWORD 0 | 1 Default: 1 Determines whether TCP uses a fixed, default maximum transmission unit (MTU) or attempts to detect the actual MTU. Value Meaning 0 TCP uses an MTU of 576 bytes for all connections to computers outside the local subnet. 1 TCP attempts to discover the MTU of the path to a remote host. By discovering the Path MTU and limiting TCP segments to this size, TCP can eliminate fragmentation at routers along the path that connects networks with different MTUs. Fragmentation reduces TCP throughput and increases network congestion. Note Windows NT does not add this value to the Registry. You can add it by editing the Registry or by using a program that edits the Registry. =========================================================== This value should be put into HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\TcpIP\Paramters David LeBlanc dleblancat_private
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