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- From: trier@slc6.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: fragmented packets with slip driver
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 21:54:21 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1hqhedINN986@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <BzInEn.H40@csn.org>
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- Keywords: slip packets fragment
-
- In article <BzInEn.H40@csn.org> ben@teal.csn.org (Ben Domenico) writes:
- >There seems to be something in the slip setup I use which chokes
- >the packets down to a maximum around 254 bytes.
-
- The MTU setting to worry about is not on your end -- it's on your SLIP
- server. Get that MTU bumped up to something larger like 576 bytes, and
- you won't have problems.
-
- A better solution would be to pester the authors of your TCP products
- to at least support the TCP MSS option, since it would eliminate your
- headaches. The "right" thing to do, of course, is to implement fragment
- reassembly, but until then, the TCP MSS option can help.
-
- >Perhaps ka9q is able to deal with fragmented packets?!?!
-
- Bingo.
-
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