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Date:      Thu, 8 May 1997 13:14:28 +1000 (EST)
From:      "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To:        Shawn Carey <smc@servtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FTP Performance
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970508131335.4479H@panda.hilink.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3371406D.41C67EA6@servtech.com>

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On Wed, 7 May 1997, Shawn Carey wrote:

> Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > Alternatively, try reducing the MTU and MRU of ppp's tun interface to 552
> > or 1064.  That cured Robert Chalmers' problem with his ISP's Ascend routers.

> Yes!  That did it, thanks very much!

I'm glad.
 
> One small thing: The only way I was able to effectively change the MTU
> was by hacking the ppp source to change DEF_MRU to 1064 in hdlc.h. 
> Using ppp's "set mru" and "set mtu" options did not work - the interface
> would go back to 1500 as soon as I connected with my ISP, even though I
> changed tun0's MTU manually with ifconfig.  Am I doing something wrong,
> or is ppp broken?  At any rate, I can certainly live with this since my
> ISP is the only system I typically connect to.

This is strange.  Perhaps some else can comment.  Brian? Eivind? Andrey?

Danny



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