[fpc-pascal] lNet and TCP packet length

[Malcolm Poole]

I'm working on a client/server project which involves sending SQL 
commands from server to client and vice versa.

I've been using the LTCP component for both the client and the server, 
which have been working perfectly during testing on the same machine and 
between different virtual machines, sending and receiving packets of 
data several thousand bytes in length.

However, when connecting over ethernet or the internet there appears to 
be a packet limit of 1036 bytes and any packets of data larger than this 
are truncated. I assume this is to do with maximum permissible transport 
units in the routers forming the connections and I was mistaken in 
believing that the lNet TCP implementation would take care of breaking 
the data down into transmissible packets and reassembling them at the 
destination.

Before I set out to implement the procedures to do this myself, can 
someone reassure me that this needs to be done and that I am not 
re-inventing the wheel?

Malcolm