From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 23:21:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA17020 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 23:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA16997 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 23:21:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA08090; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 23:21:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 23:21:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" cc: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Re: ppp mtu/mru In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Joe "Marcus" Clarke wrote: > Man do I ask a lot of ppp questions or what? This is more of a question > that a problem, though. I'm curious what the mtu/mru should be for ppp. It'll set itself > It defaults to 1524, but ethernet is only 1500. The reason I'm asking > is that I am forwarding packets from the ethernet to the ppp link, and I > wondered if I'd gain better performance setting the mtu/mru on ppp to > 1500. Any ideas? Just leave it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major