From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 8 16:35:32 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA24969 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 16:35:32 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA24952 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 16:35:26 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id QAA03838; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 16:35:16 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.9/8.6.5) with SMTP id QAA14038; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 16:35:15 -0800 Message-Id: <199502090035.QAA14038@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Tom Samplonius cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SLIP MTU in 1.1.5.1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Feb 95 16:40:04 PST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 16:35:15 -0800 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >On Wed, 8 Feb 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >> You can't reliably use an MTU this large without changing other things in >> the kernel. I'd recommend using an MTU of 552 - this usually acheives the best >> performance (several reasons why...but I won't go into this now). The above >> 'options' line is correct except for the value being too large. > > Thanks for the info. On a different SLIP system, I'd normally set the >client's MSS value to 1000 (need a MTU value of 1040+, depending on >options), and that worked quite well for connections to systems just on >the other side of the router. The standard mss for non-local networks is 512...thus 552. -DG