[Ndn-interest] NDN packet size

[Klaus Schneider]

Btw, what was the reason for setting the default max packet size to 8800 
in the first place?

Is there any drawback to increasing the default, to let's say 1 Megabyte?

Best regards,
Klaus



On 03/28/2017 02:01 PM, Alex Afanasyev wrote:
> The new ndn-cxx needs to be recompiled and installed, after which all
> other tools and code needs to be recompiled and reinstalled.
>
> The packet size is used as a compile-time constant in several places
> (definitely in NFD, not sure about tools), which requires such
> recompilation.
>
> --
> Alex
>
>> On Mar 28, 2017, at 3:55 PM, Thompson, Jeff <jefft0 at remap.UCLA.EDU
>> <mailto:jefft0 at remap.UCLA.EDU>> wrote:
>>
>> A question to the NFD team: To increase the packet size, is it
>> necessary to recompile/install ndn-cxx, then recompile/install NFD?
>> - Jeff T
>>
>> From: Mohammad Alhowaidi <malhowaidi at gmail.com
>> <mailto:malhowaidi at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 13:53:00
>> To: Jeff Thompson <jefft0 at remap.ucla.edu <mailto:jefft0 at remap.ucla.edu>>
>> Cc: "Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis" <mastorakis at cs.ucla.edu
>> <mailto:mastorakis at cs.ucla.edu>>, "ndn-interest at lists.cs.ucla.edu
>> <mailto:ndn-interest at lists.cs.ucla.edu>"
>> <ndn-interest at lists.cs.ucla.edu <mailto:ndn-interest at lists.cs.ucla.edu>>
>> Subject: Re: [Ndn-interest] NDN packet size
>>
>> I am using ndn-cxx and running the ndn-tool code ( chunks). and yes I
>> am sending it through NFD.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mohammad
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Thompson, Jeff <jefft0 at remap.ucla.edu
>> <mailto:jefft0 at remap.ucla.edu>> wrote:
>>> Which library are you using? And are you sending the packet through NFD?
>>> - Jeff T
>>>
>>> From: Ndn-interest <ndn-interest-bounces at lists.cs.ucla.edu
>>> <mailto:ndn-interest-bounces at lists.cs.ucla.edu>> on behalf of
>>> Mohammad Alhowaidi <malhowaidi at gmail.com <mailto:malhowaidi at gmail.com>>
>>> Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 13:47:00
>>> To: "Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis" <mastorakis at CS.UCLA.EDU
>>> <mailto:mastorakis at CS.UCLA.EDU>>
>>> Cc: "ndn-interest at lists.cs.ucla.edu
>>> <mailto:ndn-interest at lists.cs.ucla.edu>"
>>> <ndn-interest at lists.cs.ucla.edu <mailto:ndn-interest at lists.cs.ucla.edu>>
>>> Subject: Re: [Ndn-interest] NDN packet size
>>>
>>> I updated the file with value 32767 but it gives me the following error
>>>
>>> ERROR: Data size exceeds maximum limit
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mohammad
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis
>>> <mastorakis at cs.ucla.edu <mailto:mastorakis at cs.ucla.edu>> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> you can change this constant in the ndn-cxx library:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/named-data/ndn-cxx/blob/e78eeca5cc6c882ea1c72daaffc7678bf42f526b/src/encoding/tlv.hpp#L37
>>>> <https://github.com/named-data/ndn-cxx/blob/e78eeca5cc6c882ea1c72daaffc7678bf42f526b/src/encoding/tlv.hpp#L37>
>>>>
>>>> Not clear to me if there will be further issues because of this
>>>> change though.
>>>>
>>>> Hope that this helps,
>>>>
>>>> Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis
>>>> Personal Website: http://cs.ucla.edu/~mastorakis/
>>>> <http://cs.ucla.edu/%7Emastorakis/>
>>>> Internet Research Laboratory
>>>> Computer Science Department
>>>> UCLA
>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 28, 2017, at 11:02 AM, Mohammad Alhowaidi
>>>>> <malhowaidi at gmail.com <mailto:malhowaidi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I was wondering how to increase NDN packet size, instead of using
>>>>> 8K? and is there any limitation from increasing it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Mohammad
>>>>
>>>
>>
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