[Nfd-dev] Supporting objects larger than 8KB

[Alex Afanasyev]

The primary motivation of keeping object (transmission unit) size small is to restrict network-level fragmentation and encourage application-level segmentation.

In other words, individual Data packet should be (generally) small enough to fit in one transmission unit.  Allowing arbitrary packet sizes would violate this property and require extensive hop-by-hop fragmentation and reassembly.

Is there a problem with segmenting larger objects into a bunch of Data packets?

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Alex

> On Oct 28, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Christos Papadopoulos <christos at cs.colostate.edu> wrote:
> 
> In the climate domain, the datasizes of objects are quite big, and that makes the current object size restriction of 8KB very small.
> 
> Is there any reason not to make this configurable and support much larger object size?
> 
> Christos.
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