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Re: MTU of the Internet?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Feb 4 19:55:35 1998

Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 19:42:56 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199802041817.NAA00210@bifrost.seastrom.com>; from "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@bifrost.seastrom.com> on Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 01:17:05PM -0500

On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 01:17:05PM -0500, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> Unless your ISP uses BBN Butterflies and C30 IMPs in its backbone, I
> would discount the odds of running into a link with an MTU of 576.

How do I program my router to emulate one of those?

:-)

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