Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:14:26 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, taob@io.org (Brian Tao), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Changing Ethernet frame size to 576 bytes? Message-ID: <199603241814.KAA03651@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:03:56 EST." <199603241503.KAA21220@wa3ymh.transsys.com>
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>> You can discount the "normal Internet packet size" concept; there ain't >> no such animal. As has been already observed, 576 is the minimum >> permitted MSS. > >To be completely correct, 576 would be considered the minimum MTU. >Given that, the associated TCP MSS on that path ought to be 536 bytes. The TCP/IP header with options can be 64 bytes large, so this makes it 512. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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