Subject: Re: PPPoE vs ETHERMTU
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/03/2001 18:04:29
> > If you're using ppp(8), you can use the tcpmssfixup option.
>
> pppd(8) doesn't describe any such option, and
>
> % cd /usr/src/*/pppd
> % find . -type f -print | xargs mcgrep -H -i tcpmssfixup
>
> finds nothing, so I don't think I can. (It may well be a version skew
> issue, but it's not worth it to try to backport a more recent pppd just
> for this, since setting mss_ifmtu seems to have made it work.)
The option is in ppp(8) rather than pppd(8) (pkgsrc/net/userppp) and
defaults to being enabled.
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