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From: geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP ( R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: SLIP MTU "violation" - does anyone? does anyone care?
Keywords: SLIP MTU
Message-ID: <361@eagle_snax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 88 23:09:37 GMT
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In working on the SLIP driver for SunOS 4.0 (yeah, streams, right...)
I decided to enforce the 1006 byte MTU on input, and found
a buggy SLIP client that would occasionally send slightly overlength
packets. On checking back, I found that the "generic" SLIP
driver cares not a jot or a tittle for such things, and will
cheerfully keep stuffing an infinite amount of unterminated
data into the mbuf chain. 

My question is, will enforcing the 1006 byte MTU break anything
out in netland (other than the already-identified buggy client,
now fixed)?

Geoff
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