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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 01:00:52PM -0500, Joseph Mack wrote:
> Julian Anastasov wrote:
> > > It seems when the ethernet packet
> > > goes over the 1460 byte mark only some of the users fail others (my own
> > > machines) work just fine. I have tried it on my windows machine and my
> > > MAC I have no problem, but when somebody elsewhere on the net does the
> > > same function they fail with a 404 or timeout error on their end.
>
> after going through many routers, why aren't packets from all clients
> reduced to mtu sized packets, no matter how big they are to start?
Joe,
typically the MTU used is 1500 bytes. But when tunnels come
into play then this becomes slightly smaller because of
the overhead for the tunnel. This should not be an issue
but in practice it offten makes sense to manually set
the MTU to the smaller value on applicable interfaces.
--
Horms
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