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On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 01:18:56PM -0500, Dennis Simpson wrote: > > We recommend that clients who care about interactive response use small > MTUs, and clients who care about download speed use higher MTUs. There's an extremely annoying potential gotcha in having clients set lower MTUs. At least one release of Netscape's web server set the Don't Fragment bit. In the few cases we've seen, if there was not a 1500 MTU pipe between server and client, the server could be reached, but no HTML would be downloaded. Usually it's easier to work around the problem on the client end than convince the server admins they might want change things on their end. -- Jeff Stehman Senior Systems Administrator [email protected] SouthWind Internet Access, Inc. voice: (316)263-7963 Wichita, KS
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