Stephen J. Bevan wrote: > However, in the above you note that MPPE is being used. I take this > to mean that all the PPP traffic between the PPPoE client and PPPoE > server is encrypted. However, if that's the case then I don't > understand why there is a need to use ccrypt for the wireless link > between the two Linux boxes. Thus perhaps I misunderstood where MPPE > is being used? Or perhaps you meant this is only one example and in > other scenarios MPPE is not used and so in that case the wireless > traffic does need encrypting?
For example because MPPE is optional and some sessions may be encrypted and some not. As I mentioned, we cannot influence the ISP in topic. More generally, I wanted to present an example of a layer-2 encapsulation that Linux does not know or (as in this case) can't modify the data in it, thus it cannot fix the TCP MSS value. -- Pawel Foremski [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
