----- Original Message -----
From: "kamal kc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "freebsd" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 3:18 PM
Subject: increasing the ethernet MTU greater than 1500 (1502)
i don't want to fragment the packet as i think
that is too much overhead for 2 bytes. rather i
want to increase the mtu.
why increase the mtu when you can decrease it? one good example is the
PPPoE... default mtu size of pppoe is 1492 because of the 6 bytes pppoe
header and 2 bytes ppp protocol id to fit into the default 1500 mtu of
ethernet.... therefore you set your mtu to 1498 to fit your 2 bytes extra
header :-> in that way you are safe from any violation of rfcs...
fooler.
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