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From: tom@haven.uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SLIP mtu rate
Date: 19 Feb 1995 03:00:56 GMT
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In article <3hg413$ls@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>, millerj@OES.ORST.EDU (James Miller) says:
>
>All of your questions completely describe why I want to boost the
>mtu rate.  I want faster ftp and www transfer.  My service provider
>is running at 1006 and I have it set at the default 296.  I would
>like to equal these numbers.  I think that is the major problem with 
>my connection.  I can figure out how to change it.  Some people have
>mentioned to dive into the source code.  I am reluctant to do that,
>but I will if I have to.

  If this is FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 you need to add the line

options "SLMTU=1006"

in your kernel config file and re-compile.

  If this is FreeBSD 2.x you need to

ifconfig sl0 mtu 1006

  If this is NetBSD you need to ......


Tom