RPC: xdr_bytes "Can't encode arguments" when array is too large

Question

I'm attempting to send an array over RPC, but I receive "RPC: Can't encode arguments" when the data array becomes to large. Under 10Kb from what I've seen.

This is the line that fails.

xdr_bytes (xdrs, (char **)&objp->data, (uint*)&objp->len, objp->len))

Here's the struct being referenced.

struct dataStruct {
    unsigned int len;
    u_char *data;
};

Is there a way to fix this error, or another way to send arbitrarily large arrays?

Answer 1

After checking manpages for other RPC commands I found this:

"Warning: Using UDP has its shortcomings. Since UDP-based RPC messages can only hold up to 8 Kbytes of encoded data, this transport cannot be used for procedures that take large arguments or return huge results."

I was indeed using UDP, and after switching to TCP messages are sent to the server properly.