Because the MP3000 is passing the data through OS/2 you have to use 1492
as the MTU. OS/2 appends 8 bytes to the packet for some reason. This has
been a sticking point with the MP3000, IS, and P/390 for a long time.

Alan Cox wrote:

>On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 12:36, Christopher Gombola wrote:
>
>>This fixed my problem.  The entire lab uses MTU=1500, when I changed to
>>1492, everything worked fine.  So in the case of a multiprise 3000, there
>>must be an MTU mismatch to get anywhere.  Good grief!
>>
>
>I suspect its something else. 1500 is the ethernet MTU, and even if
>there was a mismatch with another LAN things ought to work properly due
>to the way TCP/IP does mtu discovery between networks.
>
>Your 'weird it works with 1492' is the kind of thing which makes the
>network administrators nervous. Its a bit like "The brakes are a bit odd
>but I use the handbrake when driving instead" 8)
>

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