[Live-devel] BufferedPacket size of buffer

[Ross Finlayson]

>In file MultiFramedRTPSource.cpp the BufferedPacket implementation 
>creates a fBuf buffer to receive a RTP packet. The size of the fBuf 
>is set to MAX_PACKET_SIZE which is defined as 10000. This value is 
>much higher than the MTU size of ethernet which should be close to 
>1500 bytes. I guess this is to support other networking like ATM 
>that has maximum MTU size of 9192 ?
>
>Can I assume if the network router I am using to send RTP packet has 
>a maximum MTU size of 1500 that it is safe to set MAX_PACKET_SIZE to 
>1500 for a RTP receiver implementation using the live555 library?

Yes.  (Note, though, that in most cases there's only one of these 
buffers allocated per "RTPSource", so the memory saving will be quite small.)


	Ross Finlayson
	Live Networks, Inc. (LIVE555.COM)
	<http://www.live555.com/>