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Re: [LUG] OT: router/modem suggestion

 

On 02/12/11 19:28, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> 
> It shouldn't be. I run it on lots of Linux boxes myself. You need the
> kernel ppp and pppoe drivers and it more or less just works. You can't
> get the full 1500 byte MTU though - 2 reasons - one is that the V120
> limits it to 1492....

Isn't that PPPoE limit, 1492 + 8 bytes for the ppp and pppoe headers = 1500.

Ah I found it - someone proposed changing that and treating PPP headers
as part of the ethernet headers. Sounds like an exceedingly bad idea to
change such things to reduce the overheads by 0.5%.

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