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From: robelr@mythos.ucs.indiana.edu (Allen Robel)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: minimum maximum transfer unit?
Message-ID: <34809@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 7 May 91 16:55:08 GMT
Sender: daemon@boulder.Colorado.EDU
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What's a minimum maximum transfer unit?  The smallest 

largest packet that can be sent over the media?  Sort of 

like when the weatherman mentions stuff like lowest high 

temperature? :-)

* 129.79.14.2, from 129.79.14.2, 77 seconds ago, via Fddi0
   Route metric is 120, traffic share count is 1
   Total delay is 200 microseconds, minimum bandwidth is 100000 Kbit
   Reliability 255/255, minimum MTU 4470 bytes
   Loading 1/255, Hops 0

-ar