[PD] socket object?

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

On 02/16/12 19:39, Martin Peach wrote:
> As I understood it, the OS's tcp/ip stack will take care of putting tcp
> packets back together, the application will receive complete messages
> unless they are bigger than an IP packet (~65k). Only if the sender is
> dribbling out partial messages would that be a problem. Fragmentation is
> more relevant to serial communications, where a packet arrives one byte
> at a time with no obvious boundaries unless you use SLIP, or a serial
> wireless link where bytes may be lost. TCP just discards broken packets.

from the application's point of view, tcp/ip _is_ a serial connection.
i don't think there is any guarantee that the ip-packets are not 
re-fragmented during transmission.

nevertheless, in practice you are right that you will experience 
problems more easily with large IP packets, and smallish ones (like the 
ones we were originally talking about) might hardly ever be effected.

fgmadr
IOhanne