Network

[sibisuresh]

Hi,

We have an application running on Solaris 9. Application sents data to another server and also receives the data from another server. When other server sends data to our server we receive the same amount of data packets on our server ethernet port. But after reaching our server the packets are splitting in several pieces and the applications sees several packets instead of one packet. Is there any monitoring tool which checks the packet size after it reaches the ethernet. Please help.

Thanks

 

[SamBones]

How are you sending and receiving the data? What is the "application" you're talking about?

There are different layers to the network stack. At the TCP level, you are guaranteed to get your whole TCP packet on the receiving end. A little lower than that, it can get broken up into many ethernet frames to get them to the other machine. These get reassembled to make your in-tact TCP packet on the receiving machine. Your application shouldn't be deailing with the network interface at that low of a level though.

It sounds like a problem with how your application is coded, not a problem with your network.