On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 05:41:31PM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote:
> We've done that. 
> 
> The log showed problems in negotiating a https session - which the 
> DSl guy said was a frequent outcome of packet fragmentation.
> 
> The ping showed that 1464 bytes was the critical point. But it also 
> showed that same level on the router that works fine.
> 
> What we really need to know is how to set the MTU value for the ppp0 
> interface. With that, we can try different levels and find the 
> largest one that works.


have you tried ip 
asamadlx:/proc# ip li help
Usage: ip link set DEVICE { up | down | arp { on | off } |
                             dynamic { on | off } |
                             multicast { on | off } | txqueuelen PACKETS
|
                             name NEWNAME |
                             address LLADDR | broadcast LLADDR |
                             mtu MTU }
       ip link show [ DEVICE ]

although I am not sure it it works on ppp interface's, but I am pretty
sure the pppoe client has an option to set the outgoing mtu as well or
as somebody else stated iptables


> 
> On 15 Jun 2004 at 17:21, Alexander Samad wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 05:19:21PM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote:
> > > G'day,
> > > 
> > > We're setting up a RH7.2 router on a Bigpond ADSL connection, 
> using
> > > rp-pppoe. We're experiencing a problem that some sites (eg, 
> Google,
> > > Bigpond) load fine on the network clients, but others (eg, 
> Telstra,
> > > Pacific.net.au) only load on the router itself (lynx) or on 
> network
> > > clients that are set to use the router's proxy. Ping and ssh work
> > > fine from the clients.
> > > 
> > > We've been able to reproduce the problem on our own in-house
> > > (Fedora) router, by changing the CLAMPMSS  setting from "1412" to
> > > "no". However, the CLAMPMSS setting on the new router is already 
> set
> > > to "1412".
> > > 
> > > The Telstra DSL guru (yes folks, there is one, and he speaks 
> Linux!)
> > > has suggested changing the MTU size in the pppoe client.
> > > 
> > > Where do we go from here? The ifcfg-ppp0 file on the new router 
> has
> > > a MTU="" line: do we set this to 1412, or do we progressively 
> reduce
> > > the CLAMPMSS setting until it works?
> > 
> > Might be helpful to take a dump of the traffic on the router.  
> Maybe
> > the next thing to to try the ping test with do not Fragment and set
> > the size to 1412 and then decrease
> > 
> > A
> > 
> > > 
> > > Edwin Humphries,
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