Subject: Re: magic mtu limit of 8192 bytes (one VM page)
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/25/1999 23:06:03
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 06:00:12AM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> 
> >Is there a magic 8192 bytes or one VM page limit in the IPv6 sending code,
> >or maybe in ping6, although it claims it was the send call?
> 
> 	That is because of socket buffer size.  You'll need to specify
> 	'-b', we may want to automate this.

Ah, ok. Works with -b somethingbig.

	-is