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From: ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: SLIP MTU "violation" - does anyone? does anyone care?
Message-ID: <Oct.10.22.06.37.1988.16093@ron.rutgers.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 88 02:06:38 GMT
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Many PDP-11 IMP interfaces can transfer odd number of bytes well so
the outbound MTU was frequently set to 1006 to avoid this problem.
Inbound didn't matter because the imp always spit out a few extra bytes
on the end of the message.

-Ron