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Could be related to dialup people wanting lower latencies in multiplayer games. Dirk On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 12:05:29PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > Peter Ford writes: > > Several people have noted to the Microsoft Support and Product groups that > > they want the Windows 95 PPP MTU to be set to 576 (down from 1500). this > > change is in Windows 98. > > > > The reason for this change cited by many customers is that many ISPs have > > 576 MTUs set "inside" their networks and packets get fragmented. > > I know of no modern networking media in common use at ISPs that has an > MTU below 1000, and have not heard of ISPs with MTUs that low. Also, > the ISP's PPP could simply negotiate the MTU down -- it need not > accept a large MTU, no matter what Windows would like. The entire > story sounds, to say the least, fishy. > > BTW, if Windows 95 is doing path MTU discovery, it should all be > irrelevant. > > Perry
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