From: Marco P. Rodrigues (marco@rodrigues.ca)
Date: Sat Sep 27 2003 - 12:47:02 GMT-3
Curious. I've read through RFC 1771 and I can't seem to think of
any logical reason why the max bgp message size is limited to 4096
bytes? I mean the length field in the header is 2 bytes allowing 65535.
Since BGP sits on top of TCP it can also support that size.
Is this around for legacy reasons or is this design considerations I
can't see by reading the RFC? Maybe memory/paging sizes in the
ADJ-RIB. Efficient cwnd values for TCP sessions? A balance b/w
reliability and throughput and allowing for more acknowledgments
with TCP with smaller sliding windows?
Just wondering if anyone knows why, and if it is a legacy issue then
maybe look into increasing the size? :)
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