Annex G & big messages (and TPKT and Annex E)

[Douglas Clowes]

No, I had reached the same conclusion - the packet size is, indeed, limited
to 65K bytes. If the message size exceds the UDP MTU, it hould be sent by
TCP. What I am still wondering is, will we exceed the 65K on TCP?

Subtly, this raises a similar question for Annex E which has the same
limitation. Should Annex E have a larger size field, and Annex G use Annex
E for a larger message size?

Does the TPKT size limitation affect anything else which uses it?

Douglas

At 09:35 1999-05-04 +0200, ETO wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>When an Annex G message will exceed max packet size (typically a
>DescriptorConfirm) on UDP,
>a Reject might be sent, and the session is repeated on TCP.
>
>But, isn't our PDU size on TCP also limited? When using TPKT, the max pdu
>size is 65k too, as seen in RFC-1006....
>
>Hope I'm wrong here.
>
>Espen
>
>