RE: MTU on the interface to the ISP

2009-06-18 Thread Peter Crawford
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:26:39 +0900 Osamu Aoki wrote > Are you using POTS PPP? Cable modem. > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_finding_optimal_mtu Tells how to do Path MTU (PMTU) discovery. I'd rather see a simple direct confirmation that Shaw dhcp is invo

Re: MTU on the interface to the ISP

2009-06-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:45:41AM -0700, Peter Crawford wrote: > > I'm interested to know how and why the MTU on the interface > to an ISP, shaw.ca, is set to 576 rather than 1500. Well, with information provided, no one can tell ... Are you using POTS PPP? > I haven't found a man page for d

MTU on the interface to the ISP

2009-06-18 Thread Peter Crawford
I'm interested to know how and why the MTU on the interface to an ISP, shaw.ca, is set to 576 rather than 1500. I haven't found a man page for dhcp3-client. Is there a trace or debug setting for dhcp3-client? How should the dhcp process be monitored? Thanks, ... p. crawford