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From: ckd@loiosh.kei.com (Christopher Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Setting MTU size in 2.1?
Date: 24 Apr 1996 20:15:03 GMT
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TS> == Tony Sanders <sanders@earth.com>
      
 TS> Non-local routes have a default smaller than 1024 so you'll also
 TS> notice that you can talk to far away Windows systems but not local
 TS> Windows systems.

Side question--are there any plans to support Path MTU Discovery (the IPv4
version) in BSD/OS anytime soon?  This would be a nice thing to have.
(Heck, Solaris 2.x even has it :-)
-- 
Christopher Davis * <ckd@kei.com> * <URL: http://www.kei.com/homepages/ckd/ >
"As this court has noted above, cryptographic source code is speech."
--Judge Marilyn Patel, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
                       (in Bernstein v. U.S. Department of State)