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   From: nagl@wu.ac.at   
      
   martinfnp@yahoo.com wrote:   
      
   > Can somebody help? How is TCP/IP stack designed in OSes if different   
   > physical   
   > drivers with different physical maximal size of frames need to be   
   > transferred? Does IP stack do any interrogation during startup   
   > procedure to investigate how much is maximal length of the frame of   
   > particular device - e.g. Ethernet, FDDI, WiFi? Thanks.   
      
   You may want to read about PMTU:   
      
   	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_MTU_Discovery   
      
   and MSS:   
      
   http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk827/tk369/technologies_white_p   
   per09186a00800d6979.shtml   
      
      
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