On: Single-packet race condition breaking the 65535 byte lim

[tontonius]

"Its not clear why TCP settled on such an oddly specific number"

[FuriouslyAdrift → tontonius]

Better than I could ever explain... https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2962/...

[simiones → tontonius]

I couldn't find any quote that is even remotely similar to this in the article. Can you give more context?

[Avamander → simiones]

It's probably a reference to the news article about Whatsapp increasing maximum group size to 256 and a journalist pondering over why such a specific number was chosen. OP probably meant it a similar sense, why was 65535 chosen (but it's not really such a mystery).

[Alifatisk → tontonius]

I don’t know why the author said that, Is it really unclear to why?