"Geoff L. Kennedy" wrote:

Question ... what mru do you use with this? or does anyone have a formula to
determine the "optimal" settings for mtu/mru?



> On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, David Ready wrote:
>
> > Hi All.
>
>    G'day !
>
> > I found the problem!!! Thanks to Microsoft's NT network analyser. It was the
> > MTU 542 size that I had in options. For some reason news servers can't cope
> > with a connection setup with an MTU. Just put a "#" in front of it in
> > options and all is now well.
>
>    Maybe it just doesn't like 542.....I thought that MTU sizes are calculated
> by the formula (N * 128) + 40, where N is an integer.  Going by this,
> perhaps 552 is what you need.
>
>    Or am I "out to lunch" here ??  8-)
>
>    I'm using 552 here, and haven't had any problems......
>
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