Re: MTU and 2.4.x kernel

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:54:05 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:

> > Over a 9600 mobile phone link mtu 296 makes measurable differences to the
> > latency when mixing a mail fetch with typing.
>
> It is myth.

> > Over a radio link where
> > error rate causes exponential increases in probability of packet loss as
>
> Another myth.

I've seen both these "myth"s happen in practice.

Rik

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