[erlang-questions] UDP questions

[Serge Aleynikov]

In addition to what others have said, the max UDP binary size that can be
sent/received is:
64k - (sizeof(IPHeader) + sizeof(UDPHeader)) = 65535- (20 + 8) = 65507.
This is the UDP protocol's limitation.  I would say if you use UDP, the
{packet, N} option makes little sense, since each udp message is delivered
as a whole (UDP is message oriented vs. TCP that is byte-oriented).

I see between your 3rd and 4th questions there's some confusion. UDP
fragmentation may happen at the network layer (IP) when sending a large
datagram (> MTU size), but it's defragmented by the network stack, and
delivered to the transport layer (UDP) and consequently the user space as a
whole message (preserving message boundaries).

Regards,

Serge

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a simple UDP client/server
>
> The server is on a fixed port 4567 - I open it like this
>
>     {ok, Socket} = gen_udp:open(4567, [binary]),
>
> then wait for registrations
>     receive
> {udp, Socket, _Ip, _Port, <<"register">>) ->
>
>
> Clients do this:
>
>      {ok, Socket} = gen_udp:open(0, [binary]),
>      gen_udp:send(Socket, "localhost", 44567, <<"register">>),
>      ...
>
> I'm testing on "localhost"
>
> After registration the processes send binaries to each other
>
> This works fine for small binaries but gen_udp:send fails  with
> {error,emsgsize} for large binaries
>
> So I have a few questions:
>
>     1) Can I find out the max binary size that can be sent/received?
>     2) Can I increase the max size?
>     3) Is there a guaranteed minimum packet length that will not be
> fragemented?
>     3) Can received packets be fragmented - TCP has a  {packet,N}
>        option and some built-in defragmentation, what's the story for
>        UDP?
>
> I think I know the answers to these but I'm not really sure - could
> somebody
> who really knows enlighten me?
>
> Thanks
>
> /Joe
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