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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:31:23 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Sherman F Mui <smui@sparta.sjsu.edu>
Cc:        Marc Ramirez <mrami@mramirez.sy.yale.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Slip; MTU 
Message-ID:  <199501272031.MAA00876@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Jan 95 12:05:03 PST." <Pine.3.89.9501271202.B3636-0100000@sparta.SJSU.EDU> 

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>On Fri, 27 Jan 1995, David Greenman wrote:
>
>> >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# ifconfig sl0 mtu 1006
>> 
>>    I should point out that this only works in 2.x. Changing the MTU in 1.1.5
>> is more difficult and involves editing some files and rebuilding a kernel.
>
>Which files?

   You can increase the MTU to 552 by adding:

options         "SLMTU=552"

   ...to your kernel config file. Increasing the MTU higher than this is too
difficult to explain in a limited amount of time. MTU's higher than 552 won't
normally buy you anything because the negotiated MSS for non-local networks is
limited to 512 bytes.

-DG



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