Subroutine:sendto()

[Eric Norum]

> Wilfried Busalski wrote:
> 
> Hi there..
> 
> what is the reason that I can send only 0x2400 Bytes Packages with
> sendto() ?

That's the value the BSD stack limits the maximum size of transmitted
udp packets.  This is true of the latest version of the FreeBSD code,
too.

> 
> What is the way to send packages (in my case ucd-snmp3.6.2) with more
> than 0x2400 Bytes. I have to send 0x2800Bytes.

Just change the value of udp_sendspace and udp_recvspace in
udp_usrreq.c.  Of course the other end of the link must allow packets
this size as well.

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