Re: Old thread: Re: Allowing large PPPoE frames

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:18:47PM +1000, Paul Ripke wrote:
> Hmm. Couldn't get past:
>   ifconfig: SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument
> no matter what I tried. Reading the code, it should be possible.

I think you need to enlarge the mtu on the ethernet device before
assigning it to pppoe via pppoectl -e. The pppoe device then should pick
up the right mtu for itself automatically.

Martin