Re: Old thread: Re: Allowing large PPPoE frames

[Paul Ripke <stix%stix.id.au@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:58:19PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:51:54PM +1000, Paul Ripke wrote:
> > Hmm... But the packets are getting dropped by the underlying ethernet
> > interface, and I don't particularly want to change its MTU to 1508
> > since I also run my LAN off that NIC.
> 
> Could you do it anyway just for a test, just to see if your PPPoE peer accepts
> the MTU?

Hmm. Couldn't get past:
  ifconfig: SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument
no matter what I tried. Reading the code, it should be possible.

Cheers,
-- 
Paul Ripke