From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 24 03:51:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA29229 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 03:51:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from cheops.anu.edu.au (avalon@cheops.anu.edu.au [150.203.76.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA29222 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 03:51:10 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199603241151.DAA29222@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: by cheops.anu.edu.au (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA130228371; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 22:52:51 +1100 From: Darren Reed Subject: Re: Changing Ethernet frame size to 576 bytes? To: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 22:52:51 +1100 (EDT) Cc: taob@io.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603240511.AAA20790@wa3ymh.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at Mar 24, 96 00:11:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In some mail from Louis A. Mamakos, sie said: > > > There is much confusion evident in the email message. > > First, the 576 byte packet size mentioned is the *minimum* MTU which > is "required" to be supported. Or something like that. In practice, 576 is minimum packet reassembly size, meaning any packet, upto and including, 576 *MUST* be able to be reassembled, if fragmented. The minimum MTU is 68.