On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> Stephen Carville wrote:
> > The MTU and MRU (MaxMSS?) can be adusted in the ppp options file or
> > from within kppp if you prefer. On some serial connections reducing
> > these can improve thruput -- 576 works well for many people. There is
> > rarely any point in increasing them above the default of 1500 and it
> > may hurt your performance because of fragmentation
>
> Huh ??? I would have thought that fragmentation could only occur
> if a packet that was _bigger_ than the MSS was to be sent, so
> you _should_ advertise a big limit. Of course, the effective value
advertising a larger limit increases the chance that the packet gets fragmented
when passing thru any hop between you and the sender.
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
