Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 07:33:07PM +0100, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: >> Andrew Pollock wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 01:04:32PM +0100, Andrzej Filip wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> Background: currently debian completly ignores inteface-mtu equal 576 >>>> received from cable router (single crossover ethernet cable "network"). >> I will check later this week if the MTU is set by the provider itself or >> needlessly by "a crazy router". Anyway the reasoning behind the patch >> you have mentioned makes me think (as for now) that ignoring of too low >> MTU should be configurable instead of being hard coded. >> [ Very preliminary searches suggest "crazy route/ISP" in my case. ] >> >> I reserve right to change my opinion :-) > > I have some longer term plans to completely rewrite dhclient-script, and > split out a lot of the functionality to the hooks. At this point the MTU > sanitiser could be a hook, which could be disabled.
It has been "a crazy router/ISP" in my case. "tracepath" program reported no problems with MTU higher than interface-mtu of 576 provided by DHCP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
