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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
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Subject: Re: mpd - how to set mtu
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 "from Julian Elischer at Sep 5, 2002 10:09:37 am"
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:00:17 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>,
	Michael Bretterklieber <mbretter@inode.at>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
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Julian Elischer writes:
> The other end may have asked for a short mtu but what of its MRU?
> 
> > The log trace clearly shows the other side requesting the short MTU. 
> > There's simply nothing mpd can do about that.

Sorry, I meant "MRU" instead of "MTU". I.e., the max size of PPP frames
going from local -> remote. This quantity (or an upper bound on it) is
determined by the peer.

-Archie

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