From 660255695feffd2626a5f9d798372aff104f705e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Greenman <dg@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 11:43:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] On second thought, better restrict the mtu to between
 72-65535...strange things happen otherwise.

---
 sys/net/if.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sys/net/if.c b/sys/net/if.c
index 5a60f6eafbf3..76718e29acbe 100644
--- a/sys/net/if.c
+++ b/sys/net/if.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
  * SUCH DAMAGE.
  *
  *	@(#)if.c	8.3 (Berkeley) 1/4/94
- * $Id: if.c,v 1.3 1994/08/08 10:49:18 davidg Exp $
+ * $Id: if.c,v 1.4 1994/08/08 10:58:30 davidg Exp $
  */
 
 #include <sys/param.h>
@@ -520,7 +520,11 @@ ifioctl(so, cmd, data, p)
 			return (error);
 		if (ifp->if_ioctl == NULL)
 			return (EOPNOTSUPP);
-		if (ifr->ifr_mtu < 1 || ifr->ifr_mtu > 65535)
+		/* 
+		 * 72 was chosen below because it is the size of a TCP/IP
+		 * header (40) + the minimum mss (32).
+		 */
+		if (ifr->ifr_mtu < 72 || ifr->ifr_mtu > 65535)
 			return (EINVAL);
 		return ((*ifp->if_ioctl)(ifp, cmd, data));