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>No, that's just the way it works on a portmaster. On other terminal
>servers, you can globally set the MTU, or set it on a per port basis, and
>the PPP service will only negotiate a connection up to that MTU size.
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>1500, BTW is just an arbitrary number the PM chooses.
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>You are perfectly free (the authors of ComOS) to allow your customers to
>choose what they would like their maximum negotiated MTU to be, you just
>have chosen not to.
>
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>It would be a nice feature to add to the PM series, IMHO.
>
>Cordially,
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>Joe Portman - Alternate Access Inc. Affordable, Reliable Internet
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And on other platforms, it seems that you can improve throughput by getting an
MTU of 4k instead of 1500....
-- Ken Paquette; IBM Microelectronics Division; ken@btv.ibm.com