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Date:      Wed, 16 May 2001 12:48:59 -0400
From:      James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ppp problems on 4.3-RELEASE and PPPoE
Message-ID:  <3B02AF7B.498665F8@thehousleys.net>
References:  <200105161637.f4GGb6b30680@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> Try reducing the interface MTU further.  It's possible that there's a
> misconfigured router between you and the sites *and* a part of the
> route has an mtu of less than 1492.
> 
> ``set mtu 1480'' or ``set mtu 1460'' may work.
> 

That fixed it.  I fat-fingered it to 1450.  But is now working.  I will,
when bored, try raising it up to 1480, for a little more performance.  I
hadn't considered the possibility that the 1492, which their Windoze
software uses, would be too big.

Thanks again all.

Jim
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