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At 7:29 AM -0600 1/21/00, Lourdes Jones wrote:
>> PPPoE requires an MTU of no greater than 1492 (8 bytes are
>> absorbed by the PPPoE protocol) and if the link is allowed to
>> auto-discover its MTU, it gets 1492.
>
>As far as I understand it, ethernet device MTU - 8 = MTU of PPPoE. So
>setting both of these items to match will still produce fragmented packets
>which seems to be the likely cause of your stalls.
>
>Have you tried setting eth0 1500, ppp0 1492, eth1 1492?
Yep - no luck.
>
>Though to be honest it seems some Websites turn off MTU discovery and ship
>everything out at 1500 which will always produce fragmented packets on your
>system.
>
>> Anyone have luck with the 2.3.x kernels and the new netfilter code?
>
>I'm looking at it right now. Don't currently have PPPoE so I wouldn't be
>able to see if it made any difference.
It'd probably be enough to set the MTU on your outbound interface to 1492 and
see what happens.
>
>Lourdes
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