Re: ADSL problem with large packets
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just got ADSL running on my home network with a Debian gateway (two ethernet
> cards).
>
> I think I've got an MTU problem. Large transfers just don't work, but I can make
> an SSH connection out (for example) and pinging and the likes works.
>
> I've got
>
> pty "pppoe -I eth0 -T 80 -m 1412"
> and
> mtu 1412
>
> in my peers file for the DSL connection as per documentation. I haven't messed
> with the MTUs on anything behind the Linux box. Should I? I thought the whole
> idea of this "MTU clamping" was this wasn't required?
For the record, I'm pretty certain that simply upgrading pppoe to the
version that's in unstable fixed the problem.
Andrew
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