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pls help about mtu setting
- Subject: pls help about mtu setting
- From: bill at herrin.us (William Herrin)
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:36:00 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Deric Kwok <deric.kwok2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> My DSL company asks me to set the modem 146 2 and my old company used 14 92
> Why it is not standard 1 500?
Because they're wrapping your packet inside another packet that they
then transmit on a line with a 1500 byte MTU. The header on their
packet needs a few bytes, so you can't have them.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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