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From: jonab@CAM.UNISYS.COM (Jonathan P. Biggar)
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Subject: Re: IP fragmentation, and how to avoid it
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Date: Wed, 13-May-87 17:27:51 EDT
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Don't change the MTU on your network interface.  What you want to do
is change tcp to never send segments that are larger than the mtu of
the Arpanet.  If you change the MTU on your interface, you will mess up
any ND or NFS access you may have.

Jon Biggar
jonab@cam.unisys.com