[rabbitmq-discuss] Question on packing of Bytes into Ethernet Frame for AMQP protocol

Mon Aug 19 16:36:12 BST 2013

On 19/08/13 16:10, Michael Klishin wrote:
> Both clients and RabbitMQ itself use sockets and are not aware
> Ethernet framing, MTU size value used, et cetera. MTU size can be
> configured [1] but it's dangerous and no necessary 99% of the time.

The RabbitMQ server and Java, Erlang and .net clients pass all the AMQP 
frames associated with content-bearing methods - i.e. the method, header 
and body frames - to the network layer before flushing the socket, so 
all these AMQP frames should generally only get split over multiple 
ethernet frames when exceeding the MTU size.

Matthias.