From: Rick Jones <raj@cup.hp.com>
To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Cc: roger@kea.GRace.CRi.NZ, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MTU and 2.4.x kernel
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:40:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A8C3EB5.BAB148B0@cup.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200102151821.VAA19711@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
> Default of 536 is sadistic (and apaprently will be changed eventually
> to stop tears of poor people whose providers not only supply them
> with bogus mtu values sort of 552 or even 296, but also jailed them
> to some proxy or masquearding domain), but it is still right: IP
> with mtu lower 576 is not full functional.
I thought that the specs said that 576 was the "minimum maximum"
reassemblable IP datagram size and not a minimum MTU.
rick jones
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-15 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-14 20:39 MTU and 2.4.x kernel roger
2001-02-14 20:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-15 18:21 ` kuznet
2001-02-15 18:47 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-15 19:33 ` kuznet
2001-02-15 20:27 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-15 20:41 ` kuznet
2001-02-15 21:01 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-18 19:53 ` kuznet
2001-02-19 1:44 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-19 18:26 ` kuznet
2001-02-19 22:20 ` Rick Jones
2001-02-16 12:54 ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-18 11:26 ` Pierfrancesco Caci
2001-02-16 12:51 ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-18 19:55 ` kuznet
2001-02-18 9:39 ` David S. Miller
2001-02-18 20:17 ` kuznet
2001-02-18 20:32 ` kuznet
2001-02-15 20:40 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2001-02-15 20:54 ` Jordan Mendelson
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