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From: rick@SEISMO.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  SLIP MTU "violation" - does anyone? does anyone care?
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Date: 3 Oct 88 02:49:52 GMT
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Please dont enforce the 1006 byte limit. It is a historical
curiousity that is still around because when I wrote the
original code, the IP fragmentation code of most
systems didnt work worth a damn. So, I made the MTU 1006
so it wouldn't fragment going through an IMP. If I didn't have
an IMP, I probably would have made it 1534 (or whatever the ethernet is)

--rick