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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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