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Couldn't increase MxU to 1500 and PPPoE

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Gilles Espinasse

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Aug 28, 2004, 1:47:56 PM8/28/04
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When PPPoE is used, every tutorial say that MTU and MRU should be set to
1492.

But when starting a session, there is multiple warnings when the session is
started and halted
This log is from ppp-2.4.2 and rp-pppoe.so plugin
Aug 28 15:08:44 ipcop pppd[4622]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500
Aug 28 15:08:44 ipcop pppd[4622]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500
Aug 28 15:08:47 ipcop pppd[4622]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500
Aug 28 15:08:50 ipcop pppd[4622]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500
Aug 28 15:08:50 ipcop pppd[4622]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500
Aug 28 15:08:50 ipcop pppd[4622]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500
Aug 28 15:08:50 ipcop pppd[4622]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500
Aug 28 17:29:25 ipcop pppd[4622]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500
Aug 28 17:29:25 ipcop pppd[4622]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500

Is ppp-2.4.2 wrong reporting the warning?
Or should we not set MTU and MRU to 1492 and hope the ISP have correctly set
the BAS, so lcp negociation will correctly set MTU and MRU to 1492?


James Carlson

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Aug 30, 2004, 10:02:09 AM8/30/04
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"Gilles Espinasse" <g....@free.fr> writes:
> When PPPoE is used, every tutorial say that MTU and MRU should be set to
> 1492.

Yes. PPPoE cannot be used with an MTU or MRU greater than 1492, as
the Ethernet maximum is 1500 octets, and the PPPoE headers take up 8
octets.

> But when starting a session, there is multiple warnings when the session is
> started and halted
> This log is from ppp-2.4.2 and rp-pppoe.so plugin
> Aug 28 15:08:44 ipcop pppd[4622]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500

At a guess, the peer is configured to reject MTU and MRU options, and
the local implementation doesn't deal with that event cleanly.

Debug logs (showing the actual negotiation) should be able to settle
the matter.

> Is ppp-2.4.2 wrong reporting the warning?
> Or should we not set MTU and MRU to 1492 and hope the ISP have correctly set
> the BAS, so lcp negociation will correctly set MTU and MRU to 1492?

"BAS"?

I would leave MTU and MRU alone and let PPP do its thing. Don't
configure what doesn't *need* to be configured.

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