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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!fonorola!uniserve!usenet From: tom@haven.uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SLIP mtu rate Date: 19 Feb 1995 03:00:56 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3i6c98$dvo@enigma.uniserve.com> References: <3h36qg$5ga@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <3hd4h6$sfo@clarknet.clark.net> <3hg413$ls@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sl0_haven.uniserve.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ In article <3hg413$ls@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>, millerj@OES.ORST.EDU (James Miller) says: > >All of your questions completely describe why I want to boost the >mtu rate. I want faster ftp and www transfer. My service provider >is running at 1006 and I have it set at the default 296. I would >like to equal these numbers. I think that is the major problem with >my connection. I can figure out how to change it. Some people have >mentioned to dive into the source code. I am reluctant to do that, >but I will if I have to. If this is FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 you need to add the line options "SLMTU=1006" in your kernel config file and re-compile. If this is FreeBSD 2.x you need to ifconfig sl0 mtu 1006 If this is NetBSD you need to ...... Tom