rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, February 09, 2017 07:21:58 AM Dan Purgert wrote: >> rhkra...@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 ... > > If somebody was mucking about with MTUs it tweren't me. I'm guessing > those are set in the modem [...]
Yes, Earthlink is mucking aound with MTUs. As (I think) has been previously mentioned, Ethernet is 1500 bytes. TYPICALLY one would see that a MTU is *lowered* on a pppoe connection, rahter than *raised*. Suppose at the end of the day, if the guys handling it know what they're doing, it doesn't much matter one way or the other -- but it can cause loads of "fun" problems, especially when the guys who know what they're doing end up training their third-world contractor replacements. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281