On 2009-01-05, Sergey Khentov <sergey.khen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > >> scrub out on $adsl_if all max-mss 1352 >> scrub out on pppoe0 max-mss 1440 > > thanks a lot, the solution works :) Both values (1440 & 1352) are OK, > I've left 1440. > > This is pretty weird to me - I thought MTU can be set with ifconfig - > and that is what I have done.
That affects only packets sourced from the machine itself. Other machines behind the NAT have their own MTU setting. You could indeed set MTU with ifconfig, on every machine behind the NAT. Typical consumer routers do something like "scrub...max-mss" by default.
