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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!surfnet.nl!sun4nl!geertj From: geertj@solair1.inter.NL.net (Geert Jan de Groot) Subject: Re: Setting MTU size in 2.1? Message-ID: <Dq32HL.ICt@solair1.inter.NL.net> Organization: NLnet X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) References: <4krvmi$t50@news.enterprise.net> <4l134a$4i3@jade.emeraldis.com> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 00:24:57 GMT Lines: 14 david@emeraldis.com (David G. Cannon) writes: >In article <4krvmi$t50@news.enterprise.net>, apc@enterprise.net (Adrian >Cooper) wrote: >I'm not an expert, but as far as I know, BSDI will negotiate the MTU size >depending on the clients settings. For example, it is necessary to set Trumpet >Winsock to use an MTU size of 512 in order to work properly. BSDI will >accommodate this by setting it's MTU to 512. There is no changes necessary on >the BSDI box. There are a number of parameters you can set with route these days. try 'route get ipnumber' and read the man page.