Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:40:21 -0800 | From | Rick Jones <> | Subject | Re: MTU and 2.4.x kernel |
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> 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.
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