On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 07:20:12AM +0100, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: > 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. So that makes this "working as intended"?
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