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From: jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Connecting IBM PC RT to Ethernet
Summary: watch netlen parameters
Keywords: Ethernet TCP/IP
Message-ID: <969@applix.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 89 19:19:33 GMT
References: <1667@ucqais.uc.edu> <934@hslrswi.UUCP>
Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
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In article <934@hslrswi.UUCP>, francis@hslrswi.UUCP (Francis Demierre) writes:
> /etc/net file:
> net0:
>         netaddr = 1.6.0.5           <--- Your address here
>         inetlen = 1518
>         r_inetlen = 1518
>         rip = input                 <--- It is a new keyword in AIX 2.2

Watch the "inetlen" parameters -- I have not been able to use 1518 on my
Sun/VAX/RT network with NFS. I have been using 1500 successfully -- Guy Harris
talked about this issue about a month ago -- at 1518, the packets going
out on the network are too large and the Suns print "ie0: huge packet"
--
Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA
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