Re: kern/45352: pty(4)/tty(4) have a 1024 bytes transfer limit

[Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/45352; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/45352: pty(4)/tty(4) have a 1024 bytes transfer limit
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:48:22 -0400

 On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:00:08 +0000 (UTC)
 Christoph Badura <bad%bsd.de@localhost> wrote:
 
 >  It most certainly does not.  People have been using an MTU/MRU of >1024
 >  about forever.  For example I've been rp-pppoe for some 10 years with
 >  and MTU of 1492.  That runs pppd on a pty to give it a tty interface.
 
 Although I myself used rp-pppoe years ago before NetBSD supported
 pppoe(4), most likely that the interface was configured for 1492
 MTU yet packets were still likely 1024 bytes...
 -- 
 Matt