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Date:      Mon, 7 Dec 1998 09:57:02 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
Cc:        ru@ucb.crimea.ua, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, eischen@vigrid.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, marcs@znep.com, nate@mt.sri.com
Subject:   Re: TCP bug
Message-ID:  <199812071657.JAA02647@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812071452.JAA00490@lakes.dignus.com>
References:  <19981207163606.A7575@ucb.crimea.ua> <199812071452.JAA00490@lakes.dignus.com>

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> > > 
> > >  So - a possible work-around to the problem should be to set the
> > > SL/IP MTU at 1500 at the gateway - right?
> > 
> > Does your router run FreeBSD? If yes, how did you change MTU on SLIP?
> 
>  Yes, it's a 3.0-RELEASE box.  To change the MTU I simply specified 
> mtu 1500 on the ifconfig line for SL/IP.

You have to set the MTU on the 'incoming' line for slip.  I use
sliplogin on the incoming side, so in /etc/sliphome/slip.login I have

# Bringup the line
/sbin/ifconfig sl$1 inet $4 $5 netmask $6 msu 1500


Nate

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