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Re: IP forwarding bug in 1.3.73
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Thu Mar 21 05:24:56 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: tlewis@mindspring.com (Todd Graham Lewis)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:02:00 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960320221034.8703C-100000@reflections.mindspring.com> from "Todd Graham Lewis" at Mar 20, 96 10:13:27 pm
> Why does everyone insist on running such a small mtu on their ppp
> connections? Larger mtu's are tougher to tweak, but everyone should be
Smaller MTU gives you better line sharing and responsiveness. 296 is the
traditional 9600 baud SLIP mtu, 576 is normally a better choice. Also if
you have a SunOS host to talk to it will send 576 byte frames down its own
slip interfaces unfragmented even if the MTU is set to 296....
Alan
