From owner-freebsd-net Sat Nov 11 0:46: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81DD337B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 00:46:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAB8jkL62156; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 10:45:46 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 10:45:46 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Wilbert de Graaf Cc: wu haijun , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question for PPPoE 's MTU: Message-ID: <20001111104546.B61961@sunbay.com> Mail-Followup-To: Wilbert de Graaf , wu haijun , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG References: <001f01c04afb$9b6e07a0$1b22690a@huawei.com.cn> <003301c04b9d$2cde51d0$0a00a8c0@alias> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <003301c04b9d$2cde51d0$0a00a8c0@alias>; from wilbertdg@hetnet.nl on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 09:06:38PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message