RE: pls help about mtu setting again

1472 is the maximum ICMP payload size for standard Ethernet. 1480 fails because, well, it is > 1472. -- () ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org >-Original Message- >From: Deric Kwok [mailto:deric.kwok2...@gmail.com] >Sent: Wednesday, 23 June, 2010 12:53 >T

Re: pls help about mtu setting

og list" Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 8:36:00 AM Subject: Re: pls help about mtu setting On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Deric Kwok wrote: > My DSL company asks me to set the modem 146 2 and my old company used 14 92 > Why it is not standard 1 500? Because they're wrappi

Re: pls help about mtu setting

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Deric Kwok wrote: > My DSL company asks me to set the modem 146 2 and my old company used 14 92 > Why it is not standard 1 500? Because they're wrapping your packet inside another packet that they then transmit on a line with a 1500 byte MTU. The header on their p

Re: pls help about mtu setting

google (or any search engine) is your friend. http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=mtu+1492+dsl On 06/17/2010 08:19 AM, Deric Kwok wrote: Hi My DSL company asks me to set the modem 146 2 and my