How is the MTU is 65535 in UDP but ethernet does not allow frame size more than 1500 bytes
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I am using a fast ethernet of 100 Mbps, whose frame size is less than 1500 bytes (1472 bytes for payload as per my textbook). In that, I was able to send and receive a UDP packet of message size 65507 bytes, which means the packet size was 65507 + 20 (IP Header) + 8 (UDP Header) = 65535.
If the frame's payload size itself is maximum of 1472 bytes (as per my textbook), how can the packet size of IP be greater than that which here is 65535?
I used sender code as
char buffer[100000];
for (int i = 1; i < 100000; i++)
{
int len = send (socket_id, buffer, i);
printf("%d\n", len);
}
Receiver code as
while (len = recv (socket_id, buffer, 100000))
{
printf("%d\n". len);
}
I observed that send
returns -1
on i > 65507
and recv
prints or receives a packet of maximum of length 65507
.
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