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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2004
Ketan Priyakant Pancholi, Austin, TX (US);
Dwip N. Banerjee, Austin, TX (US);
Deanna Lynn Quigg Brown, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Venkat Venkatsubra, Austin, TX (US);
Ketan Priyakant Pancholi, Austin, TX (US);
Dwip N. Banerjee, Austin, TX (US);
Deanna Lynn Quigg Brown, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Venkat Venkatsubra, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and computer program product for optimizing a message size for communication in a communication network are disclosed. The method comprises identifying a connection to a target, sending to a path maximum transmission unit value server (which is not the target) a request for a path maximum transmission unit value for the connection to the target, and, in response to receiving the path maximum transmission unit value for the connection to the target from the server, optimizing a communication by sending to the target a packet having a size in accordance with the value.