[Bug 317567] Re: pppd sends packets exceeding MTU

2009-02-02 Thread Philipp Kohlbecher
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 258743 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258743 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 258743 NM 0.7 Fails To Set Custom MTU -- pppd sends packets exceeding MTU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317567 You received this bug notification because y

[Bug 317567] Re: pppd sends packets exceeding MTU

2009-01-15 Thread Philipp Kohlbecher
Trial and error: The magic number for the payload length is 1400. Anything exceeding that terminates the connection. (Thus, the interface MTU needs to be set to 1395.) One more question: Why does pppd set the interface MTU to 1412 in the first place, when it is called with "mtu 1200 mru 1500" in i

[Bug 317567] Re: pppd sends packets exceeding MTU

2009-01-15 Thread Philipp Kohlbecher
After manually setting the interface MTU to 1411, I found out that the gateway does not accept packets with a payload length of 1416 either. Also, when pppd receives an ICMP message with message code 4 ("Fragmentation needed"), why doesn't it react by fragmenting and re- sending the offending pack