Does Windows XP automatically reassemble UDP fragments?
- by Matt Davis
I've got a Windows application that receives and processes XML messages transmitted via UDP. The application collects the data using Windows "raw" sockets, so the entire layer 3 packet is visible.
We've recently run across a problem that has me stumped.
If the XML messages (i.e., UDP packets) are large (i.e., 1500 bytes), they get fragmented as…