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From: mathisen@dali.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: ifconfig and trailers
Keywords: ifconfig, trailers
Message-ID: <2682@dali>
Date: 17 Oct 90 04:20:57 GMT
References: <3411@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
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Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman MT 59717
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In article <3411@vela.acs.oakland.edu> schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III) writes:
>Someone suggested that we should have a -trailers option on our ifconfig 
>command in rc.local. He said it ehances network performance.
>
>By intuition it seems you would want trailers. Any comments?



Somewhere, there was a large discussion about how the use of trailers
wasn't supported by all implementations of TCP/IP, and it could cause
all kinds of difficulties.

While I don't remember the specifics, we used to run with trailers here
and problems, that disappeared when we used -trailers.  I would guess
that if all you had were DEC machines running flavors of Ultrix, you
could use trailers and not have a problem, but be wary when you
mix vendors.