Re: ppp mru/mtu and ip masquerading

John Hayward-Warburton (linux@billabong.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:08:25 +0000 (GMT)


On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Dan Srebnick wrote:
> behind an ip masquerading firewall running kernel 2.2.2. DNS would
> resolve, and the browsers would wait indefinitely for a response.
> However, I could reach the site using lynx from the firewall.
> My ppp mru/mtu was set to 512 for performance reasons. I wondered if this

I had this problem due to my local network using the wrong mru/mtu.
Setting this to 1500 solved it.

Yours,

John Hayward-Warburton
linux@billabong.demon.co.uk
http://i.am/computing

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