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Re: MRU problems in 1.1.83 PPP or am I dreaming?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Delman Lee)
Tue Jan 24 00:48:29 1995
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 95 22:12:31 EST
From: delman@mipg.upenn.edu (Delman Lee)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Cc: Linus.Torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi, greg%wind.UUCP@plains.nodak.edu
] The only catch that I seemed to run into was when I lowered the MRU
] (MTU?) to 296. The default is 1500 which makes interactive work
] slightly bawky. Following the instructions in SETUP I added an mru
] 296 to the options file on both ends of the length.
There seems to be a buglet in ppp.c. The following should fix it.
Delman.
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--- drivers/net/ppp.c~ Thu Nov 24 07:18:33 1994
+++ drivers/net/ppp.c Mon Jan 23 22:06:20 1995
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@
/* RFC 1331, section 7.2 says the minimum value is 1500 bytes */
if (mru < PPP_MRU)
- mru = PPP_MRU;
+ mru = new_mru = PPP_MRU;
mtu = (mtu * 2) + 20;
mru = (mru * 2) + 20;
