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Date:      Sat, 11 Nov 2000 10:45:46 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com>
To:        Wilbert de Graaf <wilbertdg@hetnet.nl>
Cc:        wu haijun <haggai.wu@huawei.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A question for PPPoE 's MTU:
Message-ID:  <20001111104546.B61961@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <003301c04b9d$2cde51d0$0a00a8c0@alias>; from wilbertdg@hetnet.nl on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 09:06:38PM -0800
References:  <001f01c04afb$9b6e07a0$1b22690a@huawei.com.cn> <003301c04b9d$2cde51d0$0a00a8c0@alias>

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On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 09:06:38PM -0800, Wilbert de Graaf wrote:
> 
> Hi Wu,
> 
> I remember this problem when we implemented an IP aggregator behind our
> terminal servers. We configured our servers to respond with packet telling
> the client to start over again and use smaller, not fragmented, ip packets.
> This definitely improved performance. I think this is rfc879 (The TCP
> Maximum Segment Size) related.
> I don't remember how we did it but I believe just setting the MTU on that
> interface to 1492 in your case, and set don't fragment.
> 
You may also try ports/net/tcpmssd for that purpose.

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