[icecast] my icecast problem

[Kelly Lee Myers]

And just what exactly is an optimized sized packet?  I need numbers in
bytes.
I want control over it for a very specific reason.

Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean /The RIMBoy/" <sean at rimboy.com>
To: <icecast at xiph.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [icecast] my icecast problem

> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Kelly Lee Myers wrote:
>
> > In addition is there a way to set the size of the outgoing packets or is
> > that completely handled by the stack and not icecast itself. Forgive me
if
> > that sounds stupid, but I didn't really get that deep into icecast
> > configuration.
>
> You can... but...
>
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but you want to look at the MTU for your
> interface.
>
> However, you'll probably see little if any difference and you may effect
> performance for not only you, but your router(s) and that in turn would
> effect your listeners.  Unless you have control over the routers and know
> what type of topology the upstream connect runs (FDDI, ATM, etc) then
> there is really no point in playing with the packet size.  Most OS's by
> default are already using optimized packet sizes.
>
> HTH,
>
> Sean..
>
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