Re: A router bug?[Useful report this time :) (hopefully)]

H.J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Mon, 1 Feb 1999 06:40:51 -0800 (PST)

>
> In article <m10781J-000392C@ocean.lucon.org> you write:
> >
> >Thanks for everyone. Now my slip connection works fine now after
> >changing MTU on both ends to 1500. Since 1500 is used by ethernet,
> >shouldn't it be the default for SLIP/PPP under Linux also?
>
> You don't really want to use a MTU of 1500 on a normal low-speed
> PPP/SLIP link, because it makes it hard to do interactive work while
> the line is busy. With a 576-byte MTU, ssh is still usable over a
> 28.8k link while downloading large files. With a 1500-byte MTU, ssh
> would be pretty painful.
>

That is useful. But what is the alternative to setting MTU to
1500? There are so many sites with the MTU problem. We have to fix
the MTU problem on the Linux site.

Thanks.

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)


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