[java-dev] multicast receive byte limit?

Hi Issac,

As far as I can tell, the maximum packet size is determined by the 
buffer size of the underlying DatagramSocket:

<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/net/DatagramSocket.html#setSendBufferSize(int)>

-- 
Owen


isaac wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A while ago, I changed the existing net.multi.recv code to suit the
> purposes of a networked medical system that uses max/msp at my
> university.  It worked great, but now the system has grown and it is
> receiving much larger packets of information (around 8kb).  Because
> of other system elements, it isn't feasible to divide the packets up
> or anything like that.  It seems that the MultiReceiver class which
> is used in net.multi.recv has an upper limit on packet size, probably
> around 1 kilobyte, because the packets are getting truncated.  Does
> anyone know of an easy way around this?  I went through the api and
> google, found nothing.  If anyone could point me to a manual page or
> who has experience in a problem like this could help me out, it would
> be really helpful.
> 
> I'm also including my code--if anyone sees that I'm doing something
> stupid that could cause this problem, please let me know.  It's
> pretty similar to the original net.multi.recv code, though.  I think
> the only changes I made are in the receiver method.
> 
> Isaac
> 
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