Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] 3.2.5 release

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le vendredi 10 juillet 2009 à 10:49 +0200, yannick a écrit :
> >>> That's what I thought. By default, only a few codecs are enabled.
> >> The bug is strange, since 
> >> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/24407094/ekiga_3.2.0-0ubuntu1.diff.gz 
> >> does not show any change related to enabled codecs in ekiga...
> >>
> > 
> > I guess people enable everything.
> 
> I have done some limited search on the MTU topic and it seems the MTU
> can vary along the patch. Beside large bandwidth can greatly benefit for
> a larger MTU than 1500 and some people are pushing to have larger MTU in
> this case. (I have a report with this case at hand here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ekiga/+bug/380091 )I do not
> know how the choice if 1500 is made inside OPAL; if it is hardcoded it
> is probably a source of frame dropping in some case (and it happen
> probably in silence). Around 1400 seems more safe but it seems to not
> cover all cases.
> 
> AFAIK a proper fix for this situation is to use a discovery mechanism
> for the MTU: fortunately this exist in RFC:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4821

OPAL does not touch the MTU.

The MTU setting on a machine is an OS thing, not a user program thing.
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