[gameprogrammer] Re: recommended size of data for udp packets

On 8/16/05, Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 14:43 -0400, Roger D Vargas wrote:
> > Whats the recommended size of data to send inside an UDP packet?
> 
> I have never run into that question before. Cool!
> 
> You can send any size you want up to 64KB. But, lots of large UDP
> messages can really clog up a network. OTOH, if the packet size isn't at
> least several times the header overhead (28 bytes IIRC) you are wasting
> bandwidth by sending to much header and not enough data.

Does not the UDP packet have to be smaller than the smallest MTU as well?

Chris

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