[33762] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: clue for the clueless please
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Tue Jan 23 11:54:31 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Peter Galbavy' <peter.galbavy@knowledge.com>,
Ryan O'Connell <ryan@complicity.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:52:17 -0800
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> From: Peter Galbavy [mailto:peter.galbavy@knowledge.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 6:00 AM
>
> Yes, we intentionally (for some other reason during testing)
> set the MTU on
> the p2p link to 554 - oops. Will get it switched back...
> Still wondering
> though - if a normal dial-up has a lower than 1500 MTU, why
> would they work.
Because PPP does the blocking/deblocking, at the dial port, before it goes
out to eth0.