Re: Setting MTU (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sun, 29 Dec 1996 19:46:18 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Joe Portman shaped the electrons to say...
>Many computer/modem combo's these days will choke on 1500 byte packets
>delivered with full compression from a high performance terminal server.

Have you forgotten that PPP is bidirectional? With PPP MTU is really
MRU.

What you set on the PM is the maximum the PM can RECEIVE - what the user
can transmit. No matter that you set on the PM, it will TRANSMIT whatever
the users machine asks for. You cannot choke down on what goes to the
user from the comm server end.

Lowering the MTU on the PM just tells the user to transmit smaller packets -
and the PM can handle 1500 just fine. And the users machine doesn't have
to transmit the full 1500, that is just the max.

The problem with machines choking is when they receive too much and
they choke. You have to throttle back on that on the users end.

-MZ

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