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To: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au>
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Subject: Re: MTU Path discovery. 
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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 20:52:57 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au> wrote:
>I'm want to add a sysctl knob to control this (default to on).

"route add default -mtu 512" does almost what you want.

  Bill