Re: Setting MTU (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sat, 28 Dec 1996 17:12:35 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Ken Paquette shaped the electrons to say...
>And on other platforms, it seems that you can improve throughput by getting an
>MTU of 4k instead of 1500....

Many PCs have problems with 1500, let alone 4K. And it also means larger
buffers on both ends. Besides, ethernet packets aren't that big to start
with.

-Mz

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