
To: Perry E. Metzger <>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/07/1998 19:51:59
>If you want to discuss this calmly, thats fine, but frankly, if you
>want to have Stanford use FreeBSD, it would probably be easier to let
>you do that than to deal with people making threats as a way of trying
>to trump in a technical discussion.


I am trying to make a legitimate techmical point.

In_maxmtu will cause problems for people who want to use NetBSD on
mobile multihomed hosts with heterogenous media.  

are very widespread on the Stanford campus.  The data in Stuart
Cheshire's Hot Interconnects 96 paper explains why fragmentation will
cause severre performance problems here-- immediately halving
thorughput and increasing congestion which may in turn further reduce

I made the point that this change violates existing practice.  


dont CARE what it breaks.

then I will have to stop recommending NetBSD to people at Stanford

Perry, that is not a threat.  It's just a fact.