🚀 go-pugleaf

linux@blzbub.demon.co.uk (Steven Fletcher) writes:
>Mike Battersby (ins122a@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
>: First, a description of my setup
>
>:         80386-40, no co-pro
>:         4Mb RAM
>:         IDE HD, single controller, ext2 fs
>:         vanilla serial board, 16450 uarts
>:         ALPHA-pl14{p,x,z} pl15
>:         gcc 2.5.7, libc 4.5.8, ld.so 1.3
>:         net2debugged, latest 'route' from nic.funet.fi
>
>: I have spoken to several people, and followed some discussion in the
>: linux newsgroups, and it seems that very few people (if any) have
>: SLIP successfully working with any kernels after about pl14u (it
>: definitely broke somewhere between u and x inclusive).
>
>Something changed for 14x and beyond. If you use dip, then try setting 
>the mtu to 512, this seems to have fixed things here. 
>BTW, This problem only showed with NNTP across a SLIP link, 
>ftp etc worked ok with an MTU of 1500. 14x gave tcp memory leak messages.

Yes I do use dip, v3.3.7, and have been using the default mtu of 296,
as well as trying 500, both with no success. The problems are
generally only noticable with ftp, which always dies, although
occasionally telnet/rlogin will die also..

 - Mike