[H-GEN] PPP problems

[Jason Henry Parker]

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Byron Ellacott <bje at apnic.net> writes:

[MTU on PPP devices]

Linux[1] supports changing the MTU on the fly:

[0]henry at freezer:henry $ sudo ifconfig ppp0
ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:203.101.252.16  P-t-P:203.101.255.152 Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1493 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:4
          TX packets:1085 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10

[0]henry at freezer:henry $ sudo ifconfig ppp0 mtu 576
[0]henry at freezer:henry $ sudo ifconfig ppp0
ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:203.101.252.16  P-t-P:203.101.255.152 Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:576  Metric:1
          RX packets:1525 errors:5 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:5
          TX packets:1112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10

jason

[1] : and perhaps some Other Operating Systems, I dunno
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