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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!pa.dec.com!mogul
- From: mogul@pa.dec.com (Jeffrey Mogul)
- Subject: Re: Sending large packets out of our network
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.002840.15010@PA.dec.com>
- Sender: news@PA.dec.com (News)
- Organization: DEC Western Research
- References: <135858@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 00:28:40 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <135858@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> craig@dragonlady.nersc.gov (Craig Tenney) writes:
- >From an Ultrix workstation, we are unable to send remote TCP packets
- >larger than 576 bytes, although, we can send up to 1500 byte TCP
- >packets on our local network.
- >
- >What determines the allowable size of TCP packets under Ultrix?
-
- This behavior is more or less mandated by the Host Requirements
- Document, RFC1122:
-
- 3.3.3 Fragmentation
-
- [...]
- It is generally desirable to avoid local fragmentation and to
- choose EMTU_S low enough to avoid fragmentation in any gateway
- along the path. In the absence of actual knowledge of the
- minimum MTU along the path, the IP layer SHOULD use
- EMTU_S <= 576 whenever the destination address is not on a
- connected network, and otherwise use the connected network's
- MTU.
-
- But see RFC1191 for a somewhat divergent view.
-
- >Is is possible to change it?
- >How do we change it?
-
- You can't without source code; but you probably don't want to unless you
- really understand why it is the way it is.
-
- -Jeff
-
- P.S.: Actually, you can change this behaviour for other subnets of
- your own IP network; set the kernel's subnetsarelocal flag to 1,
- using /etc/kvar. Except, I think Ultrix already defaults this flag to 1.
-
-