> I've just been enlightened about the use of per-route mtu settings as an
> alternate (and probably better) workaround for this problem.  As far as I
> can see, there is no advantage to using my patch over setting the mtu on
> the appropriate route.  Sorry for the noise.

Which still means you have to do it for each and every machine behind a
pppoe router. It's hard to cope from our understanding of standards 
conformance, but we *realy* need a MSS clamping option for routers!

I've been dealing with completely clueless firewall admins at a client
for a few weeks now and just punted.


Martin