On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Ken Paquette wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Dec 1996 15:11:44 PST Joe Portman wrote:
>
> >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.
> >
> >1500, BTW is just an arbitrary number the PM chooses.
> >
> >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.
> >
> ...
> >
> >It would be a nice feature to add to the PM series, IMHO.
>
> And on other platforms, it seems that you can improve throughput by getting an
> MTU of 4k instead of 1500....