Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 16:35:15 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SLIP MTU in 1.1.5.1 Message-ID: <199502090035.QAA14038@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Feb 95 16:40:04 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.950208163608.1314A-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
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> >On Wed, 8 Feb 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >> You can't reliably use an MTU this large without changing other things in >> the kernel. I'd recommend using an MTU of 552 - this usually acheives the best >> performance (several reasons why...but I won't go into this now). The above >> 'options' line is correct except for the value being too large. > > Thanks for the info. On a different SLIP system, I'd normally set the >client's MSS value to 1000 (need a MTU value of 1040+, depending on >options), and that worked quite well for connections to systems just on >the other side of the router. The standard mss for non-local networks is 512...thus 552. -DG
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