Re: (PM) Win 3.1 problems after 3.7.2c3

Tom (tom@sdf.com)
Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:57:28 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Brian Elfert wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Tom wrote:
>
> > The SLIP implementation is no longer tolerent of misconfigured MTU
> > sizes. The MTU size on both sides must now match. Trumpet Winsock
> > defaults to 1500, and PM3 (PM2 is different!) only goes up to 1006.
>
> Hasn't SLIP always been limited to a MTU of 1006? I thought only PPP
> could go to 1500?

It has no limit, except those imposed by a particularly implementation.
Nearly everbody uses 1500 for all p2p frame types because it avoids
fragmentation to and from ethernet.

> Brian

Tom

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