computer network

Question

The max size of data that can be passed by application layer to TCP layer _____________ ?

Answer 1

Any size of data can be passed from application layer to TCP layer,form TCP layer it have something called MSS(maximum segment size) and below it in network layer it have MTU(maximum transmission unit) where a size restriction is there and we will need fragmentation.

Comments

But answer is given as 2^16. dont know which one is correct.

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http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/computer-networks-set-8/

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Application layer can send any size of data .but  Maximum packet size is 64KB i.e 2^16 bytes.

Answer 2

There is not any limitation on data we can send as much data as we want.