Wolfgang Rupprecht writes:
> I've used BSDI 2.1 for a year now and the MTU path discovery code,
> without fail, will "discover" 1500 byte MTU, 1460 byte tcp_mss.  This
> is the same answer as my SunOS machine that has been running a fixed
> 1460 byte tcp_mss for > 5 years now.
> 
> So unless one is on a network where the MTU is larger than 1500 (FDDI,
> 100b-tx w. hacked packet size etc.)  there is very little interesting
> for the MTU discovery code to discover.  The answer is almost
> certainly "1500".

But it won't be in the future. Our job is *not* to produce code that
works for a little while, but code that lasts for a long while.

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