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Re: surprising value of LARGE_PACKET_MAX

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Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
Date
Nov 5, 2021, 14:57 UTC
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Matheus Tavares wrote:
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> Could it be that you consulted an older version of this file? The
> current [1] version of the doc says:
> 
> "The maximum length of a pkt-line's data component is 65516 bytes.
> Implementations MUST NOT send pkt-line whose length exceeds 65520
> (65516 bytes of payload + 4 bytes of length data)."

I'm sure I did read the current version, so I think I must have glanced at 65516 and seen 65535. I don't see FFFF in decimal very often.

I think FFF0 would have stood out better to me, but still the current docs are ok.

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