Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU!morgan From: morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: AppleTalk across Internet? Message-ID:Date: 29 Sep 88 02:54:59 GMT References: <8809290142.AA26741@columbia.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 10 > The problem you run into is that KIP does not handle IP fragments and > the intial packets sent for AppleShare (an echo packet) is larger than > the "minimally required" mtu of 576 (often packets going across imp's > are fragment around that size). Hmm, I always thought the MTU of the ARPANet was 1008. I wonder what the MTUs of the NSFNet and the various regionals are? - RL "Bob"