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Date:      Sat, 05 Jan 2002 03:22:32 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Cc:        drwilco@drwilco.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: path_mtu_discovery
Message-ID:  <3C36E1F8.B64468C5@mindspring.com>
References:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020105011402.01d75230@mail.drwilco.net> <20020104.230218.17343558.imp@village.org>

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"M. Warner Losh" wrote:
> In message: <5.1.0.14.0.20020105011402.01d75230@mail.drwilco.net>
>             "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.net> writes:
> : Out of curiosity, where do MTUs < ~512 occur?
> 
> Old slip links that used it to reduce latency.  I suspect that there
> aren't too many of them left in the world.

PPPOE over modem links can do this, as well.

There are also intentional flow limits set on ATM muxes
which implement the "leaky bucket" algorithm (c.v. Tom
Ndousse, PhD's work on leaky bucket; I think he's at
Arizona in Tucson, right now...).

-- Terry

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