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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Subject: Re: Setting MTU size in 2.1?
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In article <w4bukhpefp.fsf@loiosh.kei.com>, ckd@loiosh.kei.com (Christopher Davis) writes:
> Side question--are there any plans to support Path MTU Discovery (the IPv4
> version) in BSD/OS anytime soon?  This would be a nice thing to have.
> (Heck, Solaris 2.x even has it :-)

  I asked BSDI about this a while ago. I think the answer was that a future
BSD/OS release would have a bunch of IP enhancements and this might be one
of them. Of course, more people asking for it always helps...

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