Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as many bytes)

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Subject: Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as many bytes)
From: Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 12:21:58 -0000 (UTC)
Message-id: <[🔎] slrno9onqg.5tp.dan@xps-linux.djph.net>
References: <[🔎] 201702061724.04267.rhkramer@gmail.com> <[🔎] 201702061926.12239.rhkramer@gmail.com> <[🔎] slrno9j8bg.5tp.dan@xps-linux.djph.net> <[🔎] 201702070815.36478.rhkramer@gmail.com>

rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> I noticed today that those statistics pages do tell me the size of the MTUs
>
> On the:       MTU is: 
> WAN VC        1540
> Ethernet      1500
>

Yuck.  Hate it when people start mucking around with MTUs ... 


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