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Re: MTU on the interface to the ISP



On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:45:41AM -0700, Peter Crawford wrote:
> 
> I'm interested to know how and why the MTU on the interface 
> to an ISP, shaw.ca, is set to 576 rather than 1500.

Well, with information provided, no one can tell ...

Are you using POTS PPP?
 
> I haven't found a man page for dhcp3-client.  Is there a trace or 
> debug setting for dhcp3-client?  How should the dhcp process be 
> monitored?  

Ho about start reading:

 http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_finding_optimal_mtu

Osamu


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