Re: SLIP: Kernel Panic

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From: Robert Smart
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 1994 01:47

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mike@starbug.apana.org.au (Mike Battersby) writes:

>I was (and still am) under the impression that you can specify any MTU
>value you like.. If its smaller than the other ends (at least with pl14+)
>packets will just get fragmented and then put back together, and if its
>bigger than the other ends, they'll just come in okay..

It is pretty hard to see how you can get a panic by having the MTU too large.
But the MTUs should be the same at the 2 ends. For example if you say
the MTU is 1500 and the other end thinks it is 1006 then you might
send a 1200 byte packet: the other end will then probably throw the
packet away but if it is buggy it might crash. [If it is friendly it
might accept the big packet and only use the MTU to decide what size
packets to send but I wouldn't count on that.]

Bob Smart

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From: smart@koel.mel.dit.CSIRO.AU (Robert Smart)
Subject: Re: SLIP: Kernel Panic
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