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From: "Matthieu CASTET" <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Subject: Re: softmac mtu
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:17:31 +0000 (UTC)
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So why a special mtu handler is not implemented in 802.11 stack :
- 802.11 stack doesn't support bigger packet
- 802.11 stack doesn't support very bigger packet (with
802.11 fragmentation)
- 802.11 writers were lazy

Matthieu