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- From: Philip Stokes <phil@stokes.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: AmiTCP 4.0 and MTU=256 ???
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 96 10:37:33 GMT
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- Message-ID: <9602111037.AA008xl@stokes.demon.co.uk>
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- Holger Kruse (kruse@america.com) wrote:
- > In article <9602082140.AA008tm@stokes.demon.co.uk>, Philip Stokes
- > <phil@stokes.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >
- > > According to my TCP/IP books, The Internet Activities Board standards for
- > > TCP/IP recommend that all networks should have an MTU of at least 576
- > > octets. Certainly the AmiTCP installer will not allow you to set an
- > > MTU of a lower value than this.
-
- [Helpful explanation snipped for brevity, but thanks for the clarification]
-
- > There is no reason why the AmiTCP installer should prevent you from using
- > low values like the above.
-
- It does though. It will not accept values <576 or >1500 bytes for (C)SLIP
- MTU's. Of course, you can change that manually after installation, but I
- assumed it was restricted for a reason.
-
- Phil
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