Name: mc57594 Date: 01/29/97


I have observed that due to an internal length field in Datagram
Packet, it is not wise to try to reuse DatagramPackets. For instance,
if I recieve a DatagramPacket and the data contained in the byte
array is 100 bytes (assume the actual buffer is arbitrarily larger)
and then reuse the DatagramPacket to recieve a packet that might
really be larger than 100 bytes. I will only see 100 bytes of the
packet that actually was much larger.
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