rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, February 06, 2017 06:24:40 PM Dan Purgert wrote: >> Could be MTU differences, and the router needing to do something (e.g. >> 1500 on the LAN side, and 1452 on the WAN, which is usually typical for >> DSL / PPPoE connections). > > BTW, thanks Dan for your response--I hope the resent email is at least a > little easier to understand.
Yeah, will "essentially" start over there, hopefully it won't be too much a mess :) > ><the stuff that should probably be ignored:> > > So, I guess the possibility that this suggests to me seems > backwards--that is, the opposite of what I am seeing. I mean, if > somewhere a 1500 byte packet has to be packed into a 1452 byte packet, > I suppose something might double the size of the 1452 byte packet and > just waste the leftover bytes in the two packets (i.e., 1452 * 2 -1500 > = 1404), but the packets are coming in on the WAN side presumably at > 1452 bytes and I would think they would fit fine in the 1500 byte > packet on the LAN side. > > (And I'm oversimplifying or misleading a little, because I'm not > seeing twice as many packets but instead packets that are twice as big > (on the WAN side).) -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
