Re: (PM) MTU for 28.8-33.6 dialup

Florian Lohoff (flo@mini.gt.owl.de)
Thu, 20 Nov 1997 13:17:06 +0100 (MET)

On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Fraser Campbell wrote:

> I just noticed that the Framed-MTU for our dialup customers is set to 552.
> For 28.8k-33.6k dialup would it be beneficial to increase the MTU to 1500?
> All of our servers are configured with an MTU of 1500.

You will get not much more throughput (Even lesser when using Van
Jacobsen) but will decrease the threading of multiple tcp connections.
This is bad for interactive working via telnet etc and simultanous
surfing.

Flo

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