From owner-freebsd-tokenring Fri Oct 13 13:53:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-tokenring@freebsd.org Received: from motgate2.mot.com (motgate2.mot.com [136.182.1.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E969B37B66E for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: [from mothost.mot.com (mothost.mot.com [129.188.137.101]) by motgate2.mot.com (motgate2 2.1) with ESMTP id NAA25485 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:53:27 -0700 (MST)] Received: [from localhost.motnet.priv (d75-2819.cig.mot.com [160.49.40.25]) by mothost.mot.com (MOT-mothost 2.0) with ESMTP id NAA04856 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:53:27 -0700 (MST)] Received: (from morishim@localhost) by localhost.motnet.priv (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA58266; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:56:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from morishim@cig.mot.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.motnet.priv: morishim set sender to morishim@cig.mot.com using -f Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:56:42 -0500 Message-Id: <5737-Fri13Oct2000155642-0500-morishim@cig.mot.com> X-Mailer: cmail 2.61 on GNU Emacs 20.4.1 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) (via feedmail 8 I) From: "Takeshi Morishima" To: freebsd-tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: MTU 576 (Re: MTU size!) Reply-To: qa3507@email.mot.com User-Agent: SEMI/1.13.7 (Awazu) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) Emacs/20.4 (i386--freebsd) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.7 - "Awazu") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message "Re: MTU size!" on 00/10/13, Larry Lile writes: > I have never found a hard and fast default value, so I punted and > used 1500. It could have been worse, 576 seems to be very poplular > due to bridging. A bit off topic though, I've been curious about where this 576 number comes from for years. Is there any reference/standard doc that talks about this brigding limitation? (Sorry for my ignorance, if this is very well known thing.) Regards, -- Takeshi Morishima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-tokenring" in the body of the message