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Answer by Ron Maupin for What does "direct-attached networks" mean?

That is the network to which your host is directly attached. If you are directly attached to an ethernet network, then the MTU is 1500 octets. Different data-link protocols have different MTUs.

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What does "direct-attached networks" mean?

This page says the following:TCP controls this maximum size, known as Maximum Segment Size (MSS),for each TCP connection. For direct-attached networks, TCP computesthe MSS by using the MTU size of the...

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