[Xorp-hackers] TCP sockets and packet splitting

[Victor Faion]

Hello,

I've been using XORP's socket library through the XrlSocket4V0p1Client
interface. I've noticed that when sending large packets sometimes XORP will
split them up into smaller ones and then on the receiving end I have to
piece them together manually. Is this the expected behaviour of the FEA or
just a configuration mismatch between my interface's MTU and XORP? Also when
sending the same packet it is not always split the same way. On the sending
end, the FEA accepts the whole packet without complaining so I expected it
would piece it together on the receiving end. Is the programmer suposed to
deal with these fragmentation issues?

Cheers,
Victor
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