Bill Dodd wrote:
> Good question. I was wondering about that as well after I sent my original
> note. This was on a 16Mb token ring network, and the apparently default
> mtu for the driver I'm using is 2000. I was regularly seeing packets that
> were between 4000 and 4500 bytes. I changed the mtu to 4500, but would
> still occasionally see even bigger packets. Seems like the actual maximum
> packet size for 16Mb token ring is something like 16k or 18k.
It varies somewhat, but many 16 or 100 Mbps TR boxes will accept up to
18K, and 17000-odd bytes is common.
Regards,
Marco.
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