Re: [ns] Packetsize of traffic over TCP

[Suman Nath <sknath+@cs.cmu.edu>]

You can hack the trace.cc file.

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Roy Nitert (ELN) wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I find that if I send packets over TCP (using one of the traffic generators: exponential) with a certain size (say 200 bytes) that on lower layers (MAC) this size is always changed to 1480 bytes !!!  I think this is strange. I think one should be able to send packets smaller than an (almost) MTU size packet over TCP. What am I missing ?
> 
> I sent a similar post earlier. But although I am a member of the list, I didn't receive any ns-mail for the last two days. I only receive one response to my earlier post, which was sent to me directly. I re-subscribed to the list, but please also sent replies to me directly. Also if you know why I don't receive ns-mail anymore.
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Roy Nitert
> Wireless Multimedia Research
> Ericsson EuroLab Netherlands B.V.
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