On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 12:25:25PM -0600, Clifford Kite wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:
> 
> able to receive 1500 and mtu is not a negotiated LCP option.  I'd use mtu
> 576 and mru 576, which are likely to cause the least trouble.

Actually mtu and mru settings of 576 cause a bit of trouble sometimes too.
Particularly with some Online Banking sites which block ALL icmp traffic.
See, MTU and MRU negotiation are done using icmp, so if icmp can't pass the
only mtu and mru that'll work is the default: 1500.

The symptom: ALL connections time out.

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