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From: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mramirez.sy.yale.edu>
To: Sherman F Mui <smui@sparta.sjsu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Slip; MTU
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On Thu, 26 Jan 1995, Sherman F Mui wrote:

> How do I go about setting the MTU when I'm SLIP'ing?

FreeBSD 2.0R:
mramirez# netstat -i
Name  Mtu   Network     Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
ed1*  1500  <Link>00.00.c0.37.65.7f            0     0        0     0     0
lp0*  1500  <Link>                             0     0        0     0     0
lo0   65532 <Link>                          2299     0     2299     0     0
lo0   65532 your-net    localhost           2299     0     2299     0     0
sl0   552   <Link>                         59526     1    65064     0     0
sl0   552   remote-acce mramirez           59526     1    65064     0     0
sl1*  552   <Link>                             0     0        0     0     0
mramirez# ifconfig sl0 mtu 1006
mramirez# netstat -i
Name  Mtu   Network     Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
ed1*  1500  <Link>00.00.c0.37.65.7f            0     0        0     0     0
lp0*  1500  <Link>                             0     0        0     0     0
lo0   65532 <Link>                          2299     0     2299     0     0
lo0   65532 your-net    localhost           2299     0     2299     0     0
sl0   1006  <Link>                         59534     1    65077     0     0
sl0   1006  remote-acce mramirez           59534     1    65077     0     0
sl1*  552   <Link>                             0     0        0     0     0

Marc.

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