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To: Patrick Bihan-Faou <patrick@mindstep.com>
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Subject: Re: "frag-anyways" knob.
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> Patrick Bihan-Faou:

> The easy fix is to set the MTU for windows to be something smaller than the
> MTU of the PPPoE link (somewhere around 1400). This has the effect of
> setting the MSS option in outbound TCP packets to something that the PPPoE
> link can handle. The server then honors that value and no fragmentation
> occurs.

this problem looks entirely different from a leaf node.  but nevertheless
i wonder if tcp-flags set by a leaf influences the situation upstream.  my
throughput is optimal at about 300, but for me it's better to set mru.

clemens


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