[Nice] Reliable vs. Unreliable...

Olivier Crête olivier.crete at collabora.co.uk
Wed Aug 25 12:32:31 PDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 15:17 -0400, Youness Alaoui wrote:
> Yes, you should make sure buffers fit in one MTU, although the kernel will split
> packets for you, if one chunk is lost the whole message is lost (just like UDP),
> so it's better to split your packets yourself.

Btw, this is only true for IPv4. In IPv6, if you send packets larger
than the MTU, they will simply be dropped. We should implement Path MTU
discovery in libnice at some point.

-- 
Olivier Crête
olivier.crete at collabora.co.uk
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