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Date:      08 Aug 2001 13:26:57 -0500
From:      Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gif MTU of 1280 ?
Message-ID:  <87wv4etnke.fsf@ghidra.vail>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010808121005.04473600@marble.sentex.ca>
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Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> writes:

> When using 1280 in a strict tunnel mode, I have problems with large
> packets from certain sites. Broken PMTU somewhere ? Not sure, but
> setting the MTU to 1500 seemed to fix it.

See rfc2923, if you haven't already. (I have seen problems if a router
caches a path with shorter MTU - say 1280 - than what the interface is
configured with - say 1500 - but that was on netbsd - posted on
tech-net early this month).

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