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From: geertj@solair1.inter.NL.net (Geert Jan de Groot)
Subject: Re: Setting MTU size in 2.1?
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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 00:24:57 GMT
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david@emeraldis.com (David G. Cannon) writes:

>In article <4krvmi$t50@news.enterprise.net>, apc@enterprise.net (Adrian 
>Cooper) wrote:
>I'm not an expert, but as far as I know, BSDI will negotiate the MTU size 
>depending on the clients settings. For example, it is necessary to set Trumpet 
>Winsock to use an MTU size of 512 in order to work properly. BSDI will 
>accommodate this by setting it's MTU to 512. There is no changes necessary on 
>the BSDI box.

There are a number of parameters you can set with route these days.
try 'route get ipnumber' and read the man page.