[ale] PPP Perfromance

[Doug McNash]

The max number of data bytes one can put in a 802.3 
Ethernet frame is 1500 per IEEE standard


On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:53:49 -0500
  Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
>Doug McNash wrote:
>Getting back to the mtu issue, I'm now curious as to 
>whether that might be part of the problem why I couldn't 
>get to my mother-in-laws benefit web site.  I've played 
>with mtu a bit and found a couple things out. Currently 
>all my ethernet networks are set at mtu 1500.  I can 
>easily reduce this by simply:
>
>ifconfig eth0 mtu 1000
>
>But if I attempt to increase it, I get an error.  Me 
>thinks this would because there's a max set somewhere, 
>although after running around in /proc for a while, I 
>couldn't find anything.  Anyone else have any ideas?
>
>
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>
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