Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 22:10:45 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "wu haijun" <haggai.wu@huawei.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: A question for PPPoE 's MTU: Message-ID: <200011102210.eAAMAj062544@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "wu haijun" <haggai.wu@huawei.com> of "Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:50:06 %2B0800." <001f01c04afb$9b6e07a0$1b22690a@huawei.com.cn>
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haggai.wu@huawei.com said:
> Hi:
>
> The MTU of PPPoE is 1492 Bytes. But if the PPPoE Server receives
> IP packets from the WAN and the packets's will be always 1514
> Bytes,so the Server must fragment the Packets to fit in the PPPoE
> packets ,and this will degrade the performance of the Server.
>
> Why not suggest that PPPoE header didn't be included in the MTU
> calculation, just like VLAN encapsulation?
The 1492 MTU limit is imposed because the PPPoE header is 8 bytes
big. The total header + data cannot exceed 1500 - the maximum
ethernet payload.
> Regards
>
> Wu Haijun
> Huawei Tech. Corp. LTD in CHINA
> Senior Firmware Engineer
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